dovecot - Jul 2012 - Converting from Maildir format ?

Hi again,
            I'm still trying to find out if anyone knows the correct
   way to either switch the existing Maildir multiple file format to
   the single file format I believe known as MBox.
   Failing that, though it'll mean a LOT of work for me to manually
   convert all of the existing Maildirs, how do I get dovecot to
   work in future in MBox single file format.

   I tried entering  'mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/%h/%u' in
   the 'dovecot.conf', but it still saves each message in a file of
   its own in the /new /cur /tmp directories ??
                                                Thanks,
                                                        Nick. . . . .
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On 7/18/2012 4:39 PM, Nick at 5sg.eu wrote:
>  Hi again,
>            I'm still trying to find out if anyone knows the correct
>   way to either switch the existing Maildir multiple file format to
>   the single file format I believe known as MBox.
>   Failing that, though it'll mean a LOT of work for me to manually
>   convert all of the existing Maildirs, how do I get dovecot to
>   work in future in MBox single file format.
> 
>   I tried entering  'mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/%h/%u' in
>   the 'dovecot.conf', but it still saves each message in a file of
>   its own in the /new /cur /tmp directories ??
Did you restart dovecot after the mailbox_location change?

Show 'dovecot -n' output.

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Stan

On 2012-07-18 5:39 PM, Nick at 5sg.eu <Nick at 5sg.eu>
wrote:
> I'm still trying to find out if anyone knows the correct
> way to either switch the existing Maildir multiple file format to
> the single file format I believe known as MBox.
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat

Fyi, Timo has designed a new higher performance format known as dbox, 
for which there are two versions, you can read about here:

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox

But you only want to use it if you are on more recent versions (at least 
latest 2.0.x).
> Failing that, though it'll mean a LOT of work for me to manually
> convert all of the existing Maildirs, how do I get dovecot to
> work in future in MBox single file format.
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/mbox
> I tried entering 'mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/%h/%u' in
> the 'dovecot.conf', but it still saves each message in a file of
> its own in the /new /cur /tmp directories ??
The wiki/docs are pretty thorough for basic settings...

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Best regards,

Charles

Hi Stan,
     >> I'm still trying to find out if anyone knows the correct
     >> way to either switch the existing Maildir multiple file
     >> format to the single file format I believe known as MBox.

     > Did you restart dovecot after the mailbox_location change?

          Yup...

     > Show 'dovecot -n' output

          It shows it - and 'plugin: convert_mail: mbox:%h/%u/mail'
     I also changed it in dovecot/conf.d/01-dovecot-postfix.conf


     Hi Charles,
      > format known as dbox

          Running v1.2.9 on Ubuntu v10.4

      > The wiki/docs are pretty thorough for basic settings.

          That's where I got the mbox line above..

                                     Thanks gentlemen,
                                                        Nick. . . . .
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