I just converted my home LAN imap server from redhat 9 to gentoo (following my recent switch to gentoo as my desktop OS). At first I installed postfix, procmail, fetchmail, and uw-imap because that's what I was using in redhat. I am thinking about switching to courier-imap though and I had a few questions.
if yo just want to get the ability to create subfolders of your folders or to use the maildir format yo can do that also which uw-imap
if you want to get rid of the folders in your homedir you can configure the location where they should be located, too.
for that you have to create /etc/c-client.cf and for each user a ~/.imaprc wher you kan configure the "options" of imapd
Just have a look into imaprc.txt in the sources of uw-imap or onto their homepage (but there is not much about configuring without recompiling)
the only the fact that the uw-imap-team does not recommend this way
... but it works for me - I changed over to use the configuration files about a month ago and had no problems since then ...
I moved all the files to a subfoilder of my home and created some maildirs ...
Currently I am still using the default Mailbox mail box format in /var/spool/mail (and all the subfolders I created in my mozilla client were placed in my homedir). Is there anyway I can convert these files over to the maildir format or do I have to just start from sratch with an empty inbox?
Of course not ... mozilla supports local folders where you can move all the files while changing your imapd - but that only a workaround for very less users (or only yourself) :-(
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