Hi Omer,
> How can I find pop3 daemon that supports mailbox format for Mailbox file
> that resides user's home dir. LWQ(life with qmail ) says there is a
> patch for qpopper but it is for 2.53 (which is old enough ).There is now
> qpopper3.1.2.tar.gz version.
> Any suggestions are welcome.
>
> Additionally LWQ says if a user has no .qmail file mail bounces to the
> owner (one sends mail).But I have managed to send a mailto user that has
> no .qmail file.I use Mailbox format by now.I will switchto Maildir
> later.Can that makes conflict with LWQ ?
(I don't remember this one being answered on the list yet...)
Well... since you're going to move to Maildir anyway, why not spend
time doing that rather than implementing a temporary mbox/qpopper
solution?
See the qmail source and www.qmail.org for utilities to convert in either
direction from mbox to Maildir (so you know that you can always go
back from Maildirs to mboxes - that may reassure you).
If you're worried about downtime, don't be: Here's a sample approach,
- Create Maildirs for all users (ensure ownership/rights is correct)
- Change qmail invocation to deliver to Maildirs instead of mboxes in
the users home directory
- Setup qmail-popup/checkpassword/qmail-pop3d for POP3 access
to Maildirs
- Setup a background task to convert the users' mboxes into
the Maildirs. Note that because of the way Maildirs work, you don't
need to worry about the converting messages "Clashing" with any
E-mails that have been delivered by qmail to the Maildir in the meantime.
It's possible that some users may receive delayed messages - i.e. they
checked their mail before the conversion had occurred of their mbox -
but that's likely to affect only a minority of users, and even if they notice,
they're probably not going to be too worried by this.
Alternatively, you could convert any mbox file in a user's directory to
Maildir messages "on the fly" by playing with .qmail files - do the
conversion as a "Program delivery" on the first line, before actually
delivering the message (./Maildir/) on the second line in the .qmail file.
OK, that quite a few steps. But it's easy to test first - just try it out with
a couple of sample accounts until you're completely happy with what
you're doing.
cheers,
Andrew.
