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I have my master IMAP server running DC V1.0.10. The homedir and INBOXdir are physically resident there and NFS exported (no caching) to 3 other machines. I have installed V1.1beta13 on one of them (which thus accesses the homedir/INBOXdir remotely) and plan to have a limited community test-drive it there. Are there any hazards or drawbacks in doing this? While th...

Thinking about going from mbox to maildir. Started with mbox way back when but thinking about making the conversion. The main reason is that I use rsync for backups and when these huge mailboxes are touched I have to copy the whole thing. With maildir I only copy the files that change. So - my questions is - what's the easiest way to make this happan. I assume there are conversion

...users all lost access to their mail because their home directories, as interpreted by dovecot, moved from user at domain to user at user@domain. The location of the home directory is given to dovecot for virtual users using the static db as uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/vmail/%u mail=maildir:~/Inboxdir Were there any changes in this area that might have caused the problem? Cyrus dovecot -n output: # 1.1.10: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2 amd64 protocols: imaps managesieve ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/private/dovecot...

I'm installing dovecot and migrating from mbox to maildir. I've read several articles concerning this process but I can't seem to find the answer to one particular question. What is the default name of the inbox when using maildir format? I need to create this in advance for each user and I don't know what dovecot is expecting for the inbox directory name. -- Andy Cravens