On Sun, 13 Dec 2009, Wil Cooley wrote:

> A guide as such is probably not warranted; open the postconf man page from
> section 5 (not 1!) and search for 'maildir'.

Wil,

   After reading the man page and
<http://rimuhosting.com/knowledgebase/linux/mail/Postfix mbox to Maildir
conversion> I still have a couple of questions they don't answer. At least I
don't see the answers there.

   In /etc/postfix/main.cf I have:

# DELIVERY TO MAILBOX
#
# The home_mailbox parameter specifies the optional pathname of a
# mailbox file relative to a user's home directory. The default 
# mailbox file is /var/spool/mail/user or /var/mail/user.  Specify
# "Maildir/" for qmail-style delivery (the / is required).
#
#home_mailbox = Mailbox
#home_mailbox = Maildir/

# The mail_spool_directory parameter specifies the directory where
# UNIX-style mailboxes are kept. The default setting depends on the
# system type.
#
#mail_spool_directory = /var/mail
mail_spool_directory = /var/spool/mail

and my mail is delivered to /var/spool/mail/rshepard where alpine sees it as
INBOX. I also have a directory ~/mail/ which contains the mbox files for
individual mail lists and other categories where I save messages.

   My two questions are:

   1) Do I create ~/Maildir and uncomment that line in main.cf in addition to
~/mail, or as a replacement for it?

   2) If the above is 'yes,' do I create that directory prior to converting
the mbox files to maildir directories?

   I'm running cyrus SASL, not dovecot.

Rich

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