This question touches on far more than Postfix, so I hope it doesn't offend anyone being slightly OT.
A little background may help: I built my current Postfix host in late 2005 as a single purpose firewall/gateway to sit in front of an old Ms Exch server, on which I've archived email since 2000. The Postfix firewall has functioned in this mode for 4+ years. It's running on a Debian system up to date at 5.0.3 with all patches installed and a custom kernel, 2.6.31.1. I'm running the Debian Lenny Postfix 2.5.5-1-1 package which I upgraded within the past few of months from 2.3.8 during the upgrade to Lenny. I never configured local mail delivery on this host as I installed Postfix on build day in '05 and set it to relay only. I have no experience with standard *nix mailbox or maildir formats, but I've recently read up a little bit on the basics of both at the Dovecot website. What I want to do is: 1. Switch Postfix from relay mode to local delivery 2. Convert entries in relay_recipients to aliases pointing to a local Unix user 3. Select an appropriate mailbox format, location, and filessytem 4. Install an appropriate IMAP/POP server daemon package 5. Migrate current emails and folders to the new Postfix/IMAP combo 6. What have I overlooked? I know basically "how" to perform change [1] but the details depend on [2/3], which I need advice on. From what I've read on this list I think I'd like to use Dovecot for IMAP. What is the best way to reconfigure Postfix to drop mail in the best format and location for Dovecot (mbox vs maildir)? My current Postfix spool is on / which has ~30GB free, ext2 FS. If preferable I can create a new partition formatted with any appropriate filesystem, mount that and have Postfix/Dovecot dump new mail there, along with storing the IMAP mail and folders. I've already migrated most of the mail and folders from the old IMAP server to local Thunderbird folders on my PC, so migrating those to the new IMAP server should be fairly straight forward once I have the new IMAP server up and running. Of note, I have quite a few current IMAP folders with a thousand emails in each, and one folder with over 10,000 emails. Would mbox or maildir format be better here, and does this effect Postfix in any way, or only the IMAP server? Thanks for any/all advice, and again, sorry if some of this if OT. I know many here run Dovecot and other IMAP servers alongside Postfix so I figured you might have some pointers. Happy new year to all. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org