On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 16:04 -0500, Stewart Dean wrote: > Questions: > 1) What does explicitly specifying MAIL this way override? The > dovecot.conf mail_location variable?
Yes. > 2) My mail_location var is defined as: > > mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dcindx/%u > > and my prospective maildir INBOX and mail folder root is to be > ~/Maildir. So would I change the above to: Yes. > > if [ -d $HOME/Maildir ]; then > > export MAIL=maildir:$HOME/Maildir:INDEX=/var/dcindx/$USER > > else > > export MAIL=mbox:$HOME/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/$USER: > > INDEX=/var/dcindx/$USER > > fi Although the "else" part is unnecessary, since it's the default anyway. > Question 3: When converting existing users from mbox to maildir, should > I delete the index contents? They'll be created into different directories. mbox is in .imap/ dirs, while Maildir doesn't use it. So you can delete the .imap/ dirs afterwards from wasting space. BTW. Are you also using a script that preserves IMAP UIDs? Otherwise IMAP clients will re-download all the mail.
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