Not sure what this had to do with the question asked. You're using mbox, but he is using mdbox. Postfix is unable to write to mdbox itself. Quoting justina colmena ~biz <justina at colmena.biz>:> *My* inbox gets filled with thousands of emails, more or less > commercial content and trivial notifications from shopping online, > and postfix crashes and will not accept new messages if the file > "/var/mail/justina" becomes too large. > > Configuring postfix to deliver the mail to "~/Maildir" solved that problem. > > I still need to configure a sieve or a filter or some nicer > mechanism to clear out messages that are either outright spam or too > old or no longer of interest to me. > > On August 13, 2022 10:00:36 AM AKDT, Marc <marc at f1-outsourcing.eu> wrote: >>> >>> We need to move all users from one (pretty old) installation of dovecot >>> to a new one. >>> The old one uses mdbox for users' mailboxes and maildir for >>> shared/public mailboxes. >>> The new one must be maildir only. >> >> why did you decide to move to maildir? >> >> >> > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
So? that is why you have this lmtp not? Afaik was mdbox created to solve the (performance) issues with mbox and maildir etc. So I just wonder what the logics is behind chosing maildir current day.> Not sure what this had to do with the question asked. > You're using mbox, but he is using mdbox. > Postfix is unable to write to mdbox itself. > > > Quoting justina colmena ~biz <justina at colmena.biz>: > > > *My* inbox gets filled with thousands of emails, more or less > > commercial content and trivial notifications from shopping online, > > and postfix crashes and will not accept new messages if the file > > "/var/mail/justina" becomes too large. > > > > Configuring postfix to deliver the mail to "~/Maildir" solved that > problem. > > > > I still need to configure a sieve or a filter or some nicer > > mechanism to clear out messages that are either outright spam or too > > old or no longer of interest to me. > > > > On August 13, 2022 10:00:36 AM AKDT, Marc <marc at f1-outsourcing.eu> > wrote: > >>> > >>> We need to move all users from one (pretty old) installation of > dovecot > >>> to a new one. > >>> The old one uses mdbox for users' mailboxes and maildir for > >>> shared/public mailboxes. > >>> The new one must be maildir only. > >> > >> why did you decide to move to maildir?