On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 08:46:23AM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2018-12-13 23:15, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > If I knew how to convert all this stuff to Maildir storage... Do I > > have to convert all of them at once? > > No, mutt can handle maildirs and mboxes alongside each other. It just > looks at what kind of file/directory it is dealing with at runtime.
But I believe Dovecot can not... unless that's changed. It was the reason I never switched to it, since I often read my mail locally and use both formats. You should also be aware that mbox does have advantages over maildir in terms of performance, depending greatly on your access patterns, system configuration, and Mutt configuration. Maildir is often better for frequently-visited, frequently-pruned mailboxes, whereas mbox will likely do better for large archive folders. Maildir + header caching improves the case for Maildir in some, but not all, cases (and if mbox is also supported by header caching now, that goes out the window, but I don't recall it ever being added). Your filesystem also matters... On older systems, maildir would fail horribly with very large numbers of messages in a folder because the underlying filesystem was very bad at dealing with them. On modern systems that's typically much less true, but the details matter. For a somewhat detailed discussion about the performance differences, you can see my posts in this ancient thread: https://mutt-users.mutt.narkive.com/OE3ugjuM/is-it-safe-to-use-mbox On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 01:05:00PM -0500, Kurt Hackenberg wrote: > Since an IMAP server is involved, the ideal would be to do > everything through that server -- read an mbox through IMAP, write a > maildir through IMAP. Offhand, I don't know whether Dovecot can > handle both at the same time... Even if it could, I would imagine this would be much, much slower than using formail or even Mutt, due to the overhead of dealing with the protocol. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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