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...er over a week of stuffing around in /etc/dovecot/conf.d files and lots of trial and error, I now have a controlled setup to migrate one user at a time to Maildir without affecting the other mbox based users. For the sake of not posting an essay, if you go to this web page: http://dmc1961.id.au/howto_17101101.php you will see what I have done (moderators please let me know if this is the correct or allowable practice to post links rather than massive e-mails to the group?). My sincere thanks to all who contributed and helped steer me in the right direction - I got a little lost on-line for a while...

...ls, which arrived during the editing and reloading the userdb config) * when done for all users, I set maildir:~/Maildir for mail location and remove the userdb file definition The problem of postfix/procmail: * I found this, but I do not prefer edit procmail config this way http://dmc1961.id.au/howto_17101101.php * I think that dovecot/lmpt is a better solution: -- dovecot takes care of the delivery and it will also know where to deliver during the mixed situation -- on the long term: told to have better performance compared to procmail; https://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixDovecotLMTP On 2019. 01....

...ail, Procmail and IMAP conversion from mbox to Maildir - I needed to make sure I could run both formats while I migrated users one-by-one. Not sure if what I did helps, but I created a 'how-to' page on it on my website rather than post an essay on the e-mail forum: http://dmc1961.id.au/howto_17101101.php In essence I am using /etc/procmailrc and the users_db approach to get e-mail delivered correctly after I have converted an account to Maildir format. I also never trust anything in my IT life, so I backup the mail directories under $HOME to mail_old. Not sure if this is any use to you but...

Hi, I am not an professional system admin, but I am running a small debian mail server for many years. It is time to migrate from mbox to Maildir. There is a nice and clean description for doing this without service downtime at https://wiki.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Sync I have to set per-user config for mailbox type using userdb extra fields. However, I miss some information and I can not

Hello everybody, I am in the process to install dovecot as an IMAP server. Currently, this system runs postfix and uses procmail for local (mbox style) delivery. Procmail ist started by postfix like this: /etc/postfix/main.cf: mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail ~/.forward: "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 # jw" Before going

Wow excellent feedback Joseph, Philon and Aki, You have all pointed me in the right direction. Tonight I have tested Dovecot with just the minor configs I do for Dovecot setup and I have commented out the mbox/Maildir lines in 10-mail.conf from my testing: #mail_location = #mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u #mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir I had run up some test files