Odhiambo Washington wrote: > 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 the following: > "dbox supports a quick migration from Maildir format" - now this leaves me > hanging. How? Suppose I migrate from Maildir to dbox, what changes do I make > to the MTA to understand that I use dbox? > Ok, I use Exim as my MTA. > > I hope someone can explain to me what I need to do to Exim and what to do th > Dovecot so that I can test this dbox thing. > And suppose I want to transfer userA's mail to UserB, what do I do? With > Maildir, I can simply do something like >
exim does not know about dbox (it's a dovecot-specific format). You'd need to configure exim to use dovecot's deliver as LDA. There are instructions for that in the Wiki. -- <Endy> taniwha: Quote material :) <taniwha> Endy: :) <knghtbrd> Endy: I already snipped it Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br