dovecot - Nov 2005 - Moving from mbox to maildir?

Hi all,

New to the list. I have an updated FC4 box with Dovecot version
0.99.14.4.fc4. My mbox size is about 76 megs and growing rapidly because
of several high-volume mailing lists I'm subscribed to. I have noticed
that over time the performance of the Evoluion/Spamassassin/Dovecot
combo deteriorates. Someone on the Fedora users list suggested I have a
look at moving to a maildir setup. Reading the docs I can't really
figure out what to. Does anyone have a suggestion how I can safely move
my mbox setup to a maildir setup? Much appreciated!

Regards,
Patrick

I successfully and easily converted from mbox to Maildir format after
finding 'perfect maildir' on the web. Here is the URL...
http://people.redhat.com/rkeech/#dovecot
 There is a tar file that contains 3 perl scripts that should make it pretty
easy for you.
 Gary

 On 11/9/05, Patrick <dovecot at puzzled.xs4all.nl>
wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> New to the list. I have an updated FC4 box with Dovecot version
> 0.99.14.4.fc4. My mbox size is about 76 megs and growing rapidly because
> of several high-volume mailing lists I'm subscribed to. I have noticed
> that over time the performance of the Evoluion/Spamassassin/Dovecot
> combo deteriorates. Someone on the Fedora users list suggested I have a
> look at moving to a maildir setup. Reading the docs I can't really
> figure out what to. Does anyone have a suggestion how I can safely move
> my mbox setup to a maildir setup? Much appreciated!
>
> Regards,
> Patrick
>
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Patrick wrote:
> figure out what to. Does anyone have a suggestion how I can safely move
> my mbox setup to a maildir setup? Much appreciated!
http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/

I did not try it but I have read that it works.

Gert