Migrating from mbox to maildir (was Re: IMAP server alternatives)
I saw a dramatic improvement in speed with both Thunderbird and Squirrelmail after switching from mbox to maildir. How did you handle the transition from mbox to maildir? -jav ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Migrating from mbox to maildir (was Re: IMAP server alternatives)
Javier Henderson wrote: I saw a dramatic improvement in speed with both Thunderbird and Squirrelmail after switching from mbox to maildir. How did you handle the transition from mbox to maildir? -jav I just moved one of our mail servers over to postfix and dovecot using maildir. There is a wonderful tool in the ports collection that migrates an mbox file to maildir. It's call mb2md and can be found at /usr/ports/mail/mb2md Josef -- FreeBSD 6.1 | Supreme executive power derives from a mandate Josef Grosch| from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ceremony. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Migrating from mbox to maildir (was Re: IMAP server alternatives)
On 7/11/2006 12:20 PM, Javier Henderson wrote: I saw a dramatic improvement in speed with both Thunderbird and Squirrelmail after switching from mbox to maildir. How did you handle the transition from mbox to maildir? -jav For my POP users, I didn't. I leave everyone's 'inbox' in /var/mail in mbox format. If a user connects via IMAP (Squirrelmail, etc.), folders in /home/%u are created and stored in maildir format, but their inbox stays in /var/mail in mbox format. See Multiple Mailbox Locations: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces Dovecot also comes with convert-tool. For the users who had mbox files in their home directory, I used it to convert those to maildir format. I don't think the port installs convert-tool; I got it by doing 'make' in the dovecot port directory and manually copied it from there. Ron ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
