*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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20220813/ce9b666a/attachment.htm>
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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.