Roger Oberholtzer said the following on 04/17/2013 08:42 AM:
On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 08:03 -0400, Anton Aylward wrote:
Maildir as a one-file-per-message (and them some) format and then dovecot will do its own indexing. For that reason I use resiserFS since then I don't have to worry about the umber of inodes needed. (I've had this discussion elsewhere to do with inn/news).
If course this doesn't apply to the 'archive' branch which is in mailbox format.
Problems: well, yes I had problems; Dovecot was different and I had to learn and new stuff and got confused by reading v2 docco when I should have been reading v1 ...
I have looked a bit and there is in fact a migration tool that converts the courier Maildir DB into some dovecot Maildir information. I am not sure if it makes any changes in the folder layout as well.
In addition, in my procmail rules, I see that the destination Maildir 'folders' are specified with a period between the levels, as in:
".OnLineShopping.NorwegianAir/"
IIRC, this is not the case when Maildir will be managed by dovecot. Am I remembering correctly?
I don't know if if HAS to be but it isn't for me. Not quite. But then it may have to do with how you name folders. and whether you access them locally as well as via IMAP. But then I don't bother with all that. All my incoming mail is brought in from the various ISP mailboxes using fetchmail, which shoves it though Postfix which hands it off to procmail which runs it though SpamAssassin. SpamAssassin either puts it in INBOX, in which case any further processing is done by Thunderbird, or its spam and dumped in the spam folder. So the real intelligence in what goes where is either in Postfix or procmail. As for your conversion too; I didn't do that. What I saw happen was ... Well, apart from INBOX, I have dovecot pointed at a couple of other top-level folders (archive is one). When I fist ran it, there was a long delay as it walked them and built its indexes or whatever. I now have a hierarchy of and here-and-there such "dot-files" with various names. I think they have to do with Dovecot's indexing. The exist in both the Maildir and the Mailbox folders. If you look under that ".OnLineShopping.NorwegianAir/" I think you will find files with names like: dovecot.index.log dovecot.index dovecot.index.cache YMMV between v1 and v2. My advise is "Just get on with it". Of course, make backups first :-) -- "Most victories came from instantly exploiting your enemy's stupid mistakes, and not from any particular brilliance in your own plan." -- Orson Scott Card, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org