similar to: mbox vs maildir

Normally I wouldn't post off topic to a mailing list, but I have posted every where else I can think of and haven't had any success yet working this out. I know there has to be a few people here with extensive knowledge of how mail works and maybe just a tip in the right direction would help me out at this point. I have migrated from mbox format to Maildir format in the last week. I

Does anyone have advice or pointers on good documentation on how to convert a system from using the Mbox format to using Maildir? I recently upgraded to Fedora Core 2 from Fedora Core 1 and discovered that UW-IMAP was gone. So I switched over to using Dovecot. So far so good. But I would like to convert my system to start using the Maildir format. How easy is this to accomplish? Can I keep

Hi All, We are soon to migrate our mail server from one piece of hardware to another and we would like to take this opportunity to optimize things. As a result, we would like to replace "uw-imapd" and "qpopper" with "dovecot". The version we will be installing is 1.1.13-2, as this is what is available through the latest Debian stable backports. We will also be using

Hi, I'm testing/debuging the migration from mbox to maildir in a mailserver running Dovecot 1.0alpha5. I migrated all 472715 emails(in a test server) and later noted that dovecot could not get the same flags/status of the emails as in the mbox. I was using perfect_maildir.pl and I think its not dovecot fault. Seems to me that perfect_maildir.pl convert the emails in a way that dovecot could

Hello all I?ve installed a new Server with dovecot, started using it and had no problems until I noticed that I couldn?t create sub-sub-folders on my imap account, I?ve read for the past two days info on how to convert and I know now that instead of using mbox I need to user maildir, the issue is now to convert mbox to maildir, on the various searches I did, I found the convert wiki page

Does anybody know of a script of a simple method of converting mbox mail stores to maildirs? I'm moving from an old pop3 system to imap and after installing about half our office with mboxes have found that mbox does not support subfolders which some people like to use. Is there any simple way of converting? I can go to each individual account and "manually" convert swaping data

I'm trying to setup our first director server. Trying to keep the initial config simple really as just maybe a proof of concept and its got me pulling my hair out today. Initially I just tried to convert one of my already running IMAP servers to be a director just to see if I could do it. I modified the configs as it appeared they needed based on: https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Director

Hello all... Found a weird one here. I tried to search the web but I'm not having luck so I thought I'd hit the mailing list. We have noticed off and on all school year that every so often a user gets an email that they just can't delete using Thunderbird or Outlook over IMAP (we do not support Pop3 anymore.) Essentially the user clicks the email and takes it to the trash.

Hello, I have used mb2md for an individual user like this: su ~username cd ~ ./mb2md -m This converted /var/spool/mail/username mbox to /home/users/username/Maildir just as I expected. To convert 100s of users the same way would be a chore (su as each user for permissions, etc.). Is there a way to batch process all /var/spool/mail/$USER to /home/users/$USER/Maildir with the correct

http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc29.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc29.tar.gz.sig Probably one more RC after this. * Security fix: If zlib plugin was loaded, it was possible to open gzipped mbox files outside the user's mail directory. + Added auth_gssapi_hostname setting. - IMAP: LIST "" "" didn't return anything if there didn't

http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc29.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc29.tar.gz.sig Probably one more RC after this. * Security fix: If zlib plugin was loaded, it was possible to open gzipped mbox files outside the user's mail directory. + Added auth_gssapi_hostname setting. - IMAP: LIST "" "" didn't return anything if there didn't

http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc3.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc3.tar.gz.sig Does this fix the hangs people have been reporting? - SSL connections hanged sometimes, especially when saving messages. - mbox: Mail bodies were saved with CR+LF linefeeds - Mail forwarding was broken with deliver/Sieve - dbox fixes. Might actually be usable now. - Index file handling

http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc3.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc3.tar.gz.sig Does this fix the hangs people have been reporting? - SSL connections hanged sometimes, especially when saving messages. - mbox: Mail bodies were saved with CR+LF linefeeds - Mail forwarding was broken with deliver/Sieve - dbox fixes. Might actually be usable now. - Index file handling

On Mon, 23 Jul 2018, Michael Wagner wrote: > here works a dovecot 2.2.27 on a raspberrypi and the behaviour is as > expected. > > doveadm -f tab fetch -u <user> "uid date.saved" mailbox Trash > uid date.saved > 314 2018-06-23 00:35:59 > 315 2018-06-23 12:39:10 > 316 2018-06-24 10:32:43 > ... > > And I have a cron script that

I am running dovecot 0.99. Everything works great; however, now I am looking at several different tools to convert mbox to Maildir. It seems the tools, mb2md.pl, perfect_maildir.pl, and others all do what they claim; however, when the messages are converted and they are stored in Maildir/cur, the email clients download these messages as new. This typically wouldn't be a problem;

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

Hi, I am running dovecot 0.99-14 on a Fedora Core 2 machine. I had a few questions: 1) I wanted to upgrade to the dovecot-1.0 release. However, I am not sure if that's really required. dovecot-0.99-14 has been running very well for me for quite some time. Is there a real advantage to switching to the latest release. The reason I'm asking this is because: i) I don't have too

Hello, I'm upgrading my mail server from UW to Dovecot and I'd like to convert from mbox to maildir. I've successfully convert myself and a few other users with the mb2md script. All is well. My question is, I have somewhere around 500 users and about 122gb of mail folders to convert (this does not include the inbox at /var/mail). mb2md needs to be run as each user to convert.

Hi all, I have recently upgraded from UW-IMAP to Dovecot 1.0.beta3 on Redhat9. I migrated my mailbox to from Mbox to Maildir using the mb2md perl script, and created a procmail recipe file to get email arriving in the Maildir directories. However, when accessing my mailbox from Thunderbird (version 1.5), it occasionally mixes up the email header with the email content. I also occasionally

Hi, Let me start with wishing you all the best for this new year, and I hope we'll see a lot of new features and not so much new bugs ;-) I'm trying to convert a number of PSTs to maildir. Just plain drag&drop in Outlook doesn't work (gives a very cryptic error message in a certain folder, but that folder is perfectly all right), and using the import option also barfs when