On 4/26/02 9:10 PM, "Mark Crispin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] pressed the keys forming the message:
> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Robert Gange wrote: >> After reading the docs, particularly formats.txt, I decided that 'mbx' is >> the way I need to go as two of the mailboxes need to have shared access. > > So far, so good. I assume that you also know that only applications based > upon the c-client library (imapd, ipop[23]d, Pine, etc.) can read mbx > format files? Right - even though the clients use OutLook and Netscape remotely, it's still imap accessing the files on the server. I really don't have any shell users accessing mail locally. >> By everything I've read, mbx seems to be the default mailbox format, enabled >> by default. > > No it is not. The default mailbox format is traditional UNIX mailbox > format, also called "mbox" format (note the "o"), which is supported by > just about every UNIX mail program ever written. Got it. >> But on some of those mailboxes, I get 'lost mailbox lock' even >> when only 1 person is checking their mail. > > That proves that you are using traditional UNIX mailbox format. > > Maybe only one person is checking his mail, but on the IMAP server end, > you'll find that it's two processes. Most likely, it is a poorly-designed > client that spawned the second process. Understood - I know OutLook tends to open multiple connections to a single host/mailbox. > Well-designed clients, such as Pine, do not have this problem. > >> Also, I brought one user over from another system already in mbox format. >> What conversion tools are available to convert mbox to mbx? > > The UW imap-utils toolkit: > ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap-utils.tar.Z > has several programs which can be of use in conversion/management of > mailboxes. Most notable for your purposes is mbxcvt. I'll go fetch it. But first, some more questions - will I just be able to run mbxcvt on the server, and imap will deal with it when users try to access their mail? Can I only convert the INBOX folder, or each mailbox in the users mail folder? What is the default location of an mbx mail folder? /var/spool/mail? Thanks very much, Mark. -- Robert Gange
