The Dovecot wiki [1] doesn't list either Exim, Postfix or anything else as supporting the dbox. I did some searching in the Exim archives and have found only one message mentioning dbox, sdbox or mdbox. [2] I think an RFC would go a long way towards getting the format supported. Has Timo, or anyone else, considered submitting an RFC to the IETF? My question was how are we going to use it if Exim doesn't support it. It looks like we can filter it and convert it with dovecot-lda. [3] I have generally avoided using Procmail for a few years because of various problems and it's a dead software project that hasn't been developed in what 15 to 20 years. I am thinking about trying it with Exim's built in Maildrop filtering support. Has anybody tried that? What else are people using to enable dbox? The more specific question on the problem I am trying to solve. I have been using mbox for years, and I can't even get Dovecot, IMAP and Thunderbird working on the LAN because it can't handle the GB's of old mail. Mutt works on the local machine, but I want something that works while I am using something other than ssh and mutt. For example I want to try Mailpile and K9. I would like to try dbox, but given it's lack of support in Exim or Postfix, I'll probably convert to maildir. Thanks, Chuck 1. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat 1. https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20110220.014144.87010abd.en.html Thread view: https://lists.exim.org/lurker/thread/20110216.223226.015539ba.en.html#i20110216.223226.015539ba 2. http://ramblings.narrabilis.com/mdboxprocmail
Hi Chuck, I?m really curious as to if I really understand you correctly. Neither Exim nor Postfix do need to support any mailbox format. They both should hand incoming mail to either LDA or LMTP. You can use sieve and managesieve for filtering and there even is a Thunderbird plugin for managing the filters. So all in all it should be pretty convenient. I don't see why dovecot should not be able to handle multiple GBs of mail, even on a local network. Philon You might want to check here: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA/Exim http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LMTP/Exim 2014-10-09 14:20 GMT+02:00 C Peters <chuck.peters at gmail.com>:> The Dovecot wiki [1] doesn't list either Exim, Postfix or anything > else as supporting the dbox. I did some searching in the Exim > archives and have found only one message mentioning dbox, sdbox or > mdbox. [2] I think an RFC would go a long way towards getting the > format supported. Has Timo, or anyone else, considered submitting an > RFC to the IETF? > > My question was how are we going to use it if Exim doesn't support it. > It looks like we can filter it and convert it with dovecot-lda. [3] > I have generally avoided using Procmail for a few years because of > various problems and it's a dead software project that hasn't been > developed in what 15 to 20 years. I am thinking about trying it with > Exim's built in Maildrop filtering support. Has anybody tried that? > What else are people using to enable dbox? > > > The more specific question on the problem I am trying to solve. I > have been using mbox for years, and I can't even get Dovecot, IMAP and > Thunderbird working on the LAN because it can't handle the GB's of old > mail. Mutt works on the local machine, but I want something that > works while I am using something other than ssh and mutt. For example > I want to try Mailpile and K9. I would like to try dbox, but given > it's lack of support in Exim or Postfix, I'll probably convert to > maildir. > > Thanks, > Chuck > > > 1. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat > 1. https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20110220.014144.87010abd.en.html > Thread view: > https://lists.exim.org/lurker/thread/20110216.223226.015539ba.en.html#i20110216.223226.015539ba > 2. http://ramblings.narrabilis.com/mdboxprocmail >
On October 9, 2014 2:20:14 PM C Peters <chuck.peters at gmail.com> wrote:> it's lack of support in Exim or Postfix, I'll probably convert to > maildir.Why not use dovecot lmtp or dovecot lda ?, postfix or exim dont need to store mails in sql like dbmail does, but dbmail have a lda or lmtp aswell, problem solved no ?
On 09 Oct 2014, at 15:20, C Peters <chuck.peters at gmail.com> wrote:> The Dovecot wiki [1] doesn't list either Exim, Postfix or anything > else as supporting the dbox. I did some searching in the Exim > archives and have found only one message mentioning dbox, sdbox or > mdbox. [2] I think an RFC would go a long way towards getting the > format supported. Has Timo, or anyone else, considered submitting an > RFC to the IETF?No, and I don't want it to happen anytime in near future. The dbox format is highly Dovecot-specific, because it relies on Dovecot's index files. These index files are still changing and I'm not sure if they will ever be fully finished. I don't want any other software to even attempt to implement the same functionality.> My question was how are we going to use it if Exim doesn't support it.As others said, use LMTP or dovecot-lda with Sieve filtering.