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...t sure if a full back up is the best way to do backups. I know with my fileserver i do weekly full backup and daily incremental which would file on those type of files. I guess my question to the group is, how do you guys backup Maildir? whats the best way of doing it? -- Gabe Granger Pancentric results-driven communications and e-solutions +44 (0) 20 8877 0230 http://www.pancentric.com

Hi All, Bit the bullet last night and switched off UW-IMAP and turned on Dovecot. With any migration I've got some teething problems and hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction. I tested the system using apple's Mail.app which worked fine, no problems at all, but it seems that most of my users are getting problems, i suspect Mail.app is hiding these messages

Thanks to all for pointing out the Thunderbird bug workaround, I've got another question Some of my users are complaining that when they select a message, the email client says "Loading Message" and either takes a long time to display a small message or does not display the message at all. Its odd becuase it seems that larger message on these users machines seem to open more

Hi All, I've just a new server to help with migration of our email, the old email server is using mbox and the new is using Maildir. I've managed to some user mail migrated fine. The new server is only a temp server as I have too many users to migrate easily in one go(Also I want to nuke the current mailserver, remove SuSE and install Debian on it). So what i'm doing it

Hi All, Over the weekend I bit the bullet and migrated my entire office from server to another and converted everything from MBOX to Maildir. Althought it took ages and their we're a few little problems along the way, the migration was a complete success with no users reporting any problems(Mbox used to always cause file lock ups) or even noticing anything had changed... Which is

Hi all, I'm using Debian (testing) for my office mail. I'm using sendmail and Dovecot to deliver email to clients over IMAP using mbox format. I want to move over and start using Maildir. I know that I can use different MTA's to do the job, but I really like sendmail, and I run additional sendmail servers across the my internal and external networks. I'm probably

I've got some issues with dovecot, that I need to resolve, I only have about 20 users in the office, but the average disk space used by each user is anywhere from 1GB up to at the extreme end of the scale 7GB. I'm using the mailbox format. The server is a P4 2.8 with a 1GB of ram and run off 250GB SATA disks. most users have lots of structured folders going as deep as 6 levels.