similar to: Dovecot 2.0 zlib and dbox

It has been my wish to move to dbox for a long time hoping to reduce the number of writes which is really killing us. Now I wonder what may be the best way of doing so. I'm considering some sort of intermediate migration where the existing Maildir users are changed to single-dbox and then later upgraded to 2.0 and changed to multi-dbox when it becomes stable. But is this a reasonable task

I'd like to give the dbox format a try, but I could not find any information on how to enable it. There's information on how to set mail_location for the Maildir and mbox formats in the wiki and also in the commented configuration file, but how to set it for dbox is strangely missing. I took a guess with 'mail_location = dbox:~/dbox', but that didn't work, so it's probably

Hi, I am contemplating migrating from maildir to dbox. However, I wonder about the maturity of the dbox code, as it appears to not be widely used. Does anybody have some success stories? My primary driver is to have non-changing file names, and thus smaller backup deltas. Are there other advantages that I should pursue? I read in the wiki that the migration is straightforward, but I did not

Hello, So ive spent the last 45 minutes or so searching the list for dbox stuff, but Im not seeing anything real definitive. My question is basically whether the dbox format is ready for production environment, is sdbox or mdbox more stable/ready than the other or does it matter? What are people's experience/review with running this format (and if you reply can you tell me which one

Hi Timo, I've just setup Dovecot v1.2.rc5 and switched the mailbox format of one account to dbox. Therefor I've created an empty directory, called dbox, with access mode 0700, like the user's home directory. After the IMAP login with Thunderbird some dboxes was created. All permissions were set fine (0700 / 0600), except the permissions for the files: *

Hello. I'm install latest dovecot 1.2 from hg repo. I have many messages in maildir+ format. I migrate some folders to dbxo format using instructions from http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox. But in two folders i'm delete index.cache and index.log files, this is my mistake. Is that possible to recover this files (regenerate) or use my messages from maildir with dbox? Thank You for

Hello people, Since the invention of this storage called dbox, I have never quite gotten round to understanding it, nor getting to use it. It seems so strange to me and I must ask a few stupid questions about it. I use the MTA to deliver mail to Maildir, either in ~/Maildir or /some/path/%d/%n/Maildir. It has always beat me how dbox comes into play under such circumstances. From the wiki, I see

Hi Timo, playing a lot with dbox but folder deletion seems to me broken, whatever setting i tested i cant delete subfolders with thunderbird, i first thought about acls but deactivate acl didnt helped splitting control an index files from dbox also didnt work, i cant find any failure message in the logs, but there is also no entry for delete trys all debug level are in the highest stage on this

I am trying out "mdbox" under Dovecot 2.0beta5. Looking in the "mailboxes" directory under the mdbox storage root ("~/dbox" in my case), I can see that the mail folders are mapped into filesystem directories. But Dovecot seems to put all the message list information ("dovecot.index.cache", "dovecot.index.log") for any given mail folder into a

Hi, How do i convert from Maildir to dbox using the convert plugin? My users reside in /home/user/Maildir. In the dovecot.conf file i've set up convert_mail = dbox:%h but I am not sure about the syntax. Im getting the error: Couldn't create mailbox directory INBOX Mailbox conversion failed, exiting Thanks -- Kjartan

Hey to all, is it possible to get rid of the "dbox-Mails"-folder when using sdbox? Currently my folder structure looks like this (I hope the output from tree would be formatted well): /srv/mail/ ??? example.com ??? ??? user ??????? ??? dovecot-acl-list ??????? ??? dovecot-attributes ??????? ??? dovecot.list.index.log ??????? ??? dovecot.mailbox.log ??????? ???

Dear users, I have a question about the storage dbox. Is it possible to deliver e-mails from two different lda? I would have two independent servers working at the same time on nfs. Is it possible since the e-mails name will be the same? Thanks in advance Alex

hi, what is the current state of dovecot dbox support? is it stable, fast and usable? is it have current advantage over maildir or it will only have when it'll be optimized? is it worth to choose as a default mailbox format in a new dovecot install? thanks. yours. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

Hi. Trying to upgrade from Dovecot 1.1.11 to 1.1.13 but having a problem with imap process segfaulting. Backtrace is below. I presume it's related to these MAILBOXDIR changes but the only documentation is the single line in the news for changing to ":MAILBOXDIR=mailboxes" when using dbox. Current configuration is "mail_location = dbox:~/Mail" so what exactly should be

Hello Actually we use MBOX format for all our IMAP access but users complain they cannot create subfolders in imap folders, of course they cannot because of MBOX format ... I need gurus advices on changing mailbox format Maildir of Dbox ? What would be the safest way to go ? Note : we extensively use Thunderbird here. Thanks

Hey again, sorry, but I have to correct me: Even with dot it's not working completely. The subscriptions file is not created and the dovecot-acl file has the wrong path, too. :-( Greetings, Hativ Am 07.07.2018 um 02:26 schrieb Hativ: > Hey again, > > I've found a working configuration: mail_location = sdbox:~/:FULLDIRNAME=. > > I use a dot instead of slash or empty

Hi @ll i have somthing like namespace public { separator = / prefix = "public/" location = dbox:/usr/local/virtual/%d/public inbox = no list = yes subscriptions = yes hidden = no } which works nice if i set location = maildir:/usr/local/virtual/%d/public %d expansion works right with maildir but if user mailboxes are on dbox with public namespace too, dovecot

I think a few people have complained about this combination being somewhat broken, resulting in bogus "cached message size wrong" errors sometimes. This fixes it: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/9b2931607063

Hi, I have just tested the dbox format mailbox, it works fine. But when I create dir through imap with `create` command, it only creates the dir onder ~/dbox/mailboxes, such as ~/dbox/mailboxes/newfolder. There was no `dbox-Mails` dir created. So the newfolder was 'noselect'. But the new folders created by `autocreate` plugin was correct. -- Xueron Nee http://www.xueron.com

Hey Aki, DIRNAME with empty value has no effect, just like with FULLDIRNAME. "~/sdbox" instead of "~/" doesn't change that.. Greetings, Hativ Am 07.07.2018 um 20:24 schrieb Aki Tuomi: > Does it work better if you use > > mail_location=sdbox:~/sdbox:DIRNAME= > > > > --- > Aki Tuomi > Dovecot oy > > -------- Original message -------- >