Ian Zimmerman wrote:
I have over 400 mboxes in my ~/Mail directory, some of them being
mailing list archives, others being Usenet groups archives, or mboxes
inherited from my decommissioned CommuniGate server.
My dovecot configuration is simple: "mail_location =
mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u"
If I knew how to convert all this stuff to Maildir storage... Do I
have to convert all of them at once?
No, mutt can handle maildirs and mboxes alongside each other. It just
looks at what kind of file/directory it is dealing with at runtime.
I know mutt can, I doubt that dovecot can.
For conversion, you can use formail -s together with some script that
will deliver to maildirs. I can provide you with mine if you ask.
Also, something like
DEFAULT=/path/to/maildir/ procmail /dev/null
will work (but I try to avoid procmail for data-critical tasks).
May I ask why? procmail has been in my ~/.forward for two decades,
with lots of rules, and I've not seen any problems from it.
Lastly, are you sure you need IMAP and dovecot at all?
Sure. First of all, other users need it, and I don't like the idea of
personal settings for myself.
Then, I like to use a mobile app (AquaMail) for mail access when on
the road.
Do you have
shell access to the server?
I do, that's where I use mutt for local access to mailboxes.
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