I'm planning on migrating my system from Maildir to Mbox. (I'm tired of
having to find Maildir-aware tools, and I don't really need Maildir since
my mail delivery volume is low and none of my filesystems involve NFS.)
Are there any particular issues I should be aware of? Having read the
maildir2mbox man page, it looks like running that for each of my users
(probably through a Perl script wrapper) should be sufficient. Obviously,
I'll need to stop local deliveries first, then restart Qmail with an mbox
delivery instruction instead of Maildir. So, my proposed plan of action
looks like:
1) Write Perl wrapper to run maildir2mbox for each user.
2) Set concurrencylocal to 0; restart Qmail (to continue accept-
ing mail during changeover).
3) Run Perl wrapper script.
4) Set Qmail's new delivery instruction, remove zero setting on
concurrencylocal, restart Qmail.
5) Enjoy life with no more Maildirs.
Is there anything I'm missing that's likely to bite me? Is there a
preferred canonical filename for mbox files in users' home dirs? If I make
the file .mbox or some other hidden name, will this cause trouble?
In particular, since some of my users are clamoring for Pine, does Pine
expect some particular mbox filename? And is there anything else I should
be asking or worrying about that I'm not?
Thanks very much.
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Kai MacTane
System Administrator
Online Partners.com, Inc.
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>From the Jargon File: (v4.0.0, 25 Jul 1996)
die horribly /v./
The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the preferred emphatic
form of die. "The converter choked on an FF in its input and died
horribly".
