I'd like to request some feed back from any OS X Mail Admins on the list, please. Currently running 10.4.9 here using postfix / dovecot and I'm about to take the plunge from mbox to maildir. I just migrated from uw-imap to dovecot. As you're aware, users inbox's are customarily stored in /var/mail/% username and personal folders under /Users/%username/Library/Mail/IMAP. I'd appreciate if you'd share with me the directory structure that you use, or would use in my situation. All mail storage will be on the server so disk space is not an issue. I'm a bit confused whether or not to keep the inbox separate from the other imap structure as is the OS X default: should all mailboxes be under inbox, etc. Your input would be appreciated. Thank you, B. Bodger New York, NY
> I'd appreciate if you'd share with me the directory structure that > you use, or would use in my situation. All mail storage will be on > the server so disk space is not an issue. I'm a bit confused > whether or not to keep the inbox separate from the other imap > structure as is the OS X default: should all mailboxes be under > inbox, etc.i run an os x server, and keep it simply as a server, so there's no need to match the mail storage w/ the apple mail layout. since i only have a handful of users, i use $HOME/Maildir for each account, then let the client machines/apps do as they wish. if i had more users if would move it into /var and use a different authentication scheme. the only difference from a linux setup is that most things dovecot don't seem as well tested under os x since there are fewer of us. -SM-
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 10:41 -0400, Bruce Bodger wrote:> I'd like to request some feed back from any OS X Mail Admins on the > list, please.Set dotlock_use_excl=yes. Without it you can run into all kinds of trouble with HFS+. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20070516/bd711cdc/attachment.bin>
On May 16, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:> On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 10:41 -0400, Bruce Bodger wrote: >> I'd like to request some feed back from any OS X Mail Admins on the >> list, please. > > Set dotlock_use_excl=yes. Without it you can run into all kinds of > trouble with HFS+.Got it! Thanks.