Re: PATCH for Stephan: Re: pigeonhole/lda accessing -m folder

2015-08-11 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 10 Aug 2015, Stephan Bosch wrote: I would make this dependent on an extension like "vnd.dovecot.environment", so that non-standard features are only added Yes, sure :-) Maybe to place it into a vnd.dovecot. namespace of the variable exten

Re: backing up email / saving maildir on external hard drives

2015-08-11 Thread Götz Reinicke
> Am 11.08.2015 um 17:56 schrieb Christian Schmidt > : > > On 11.08.2015 15:45, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator wrote: >> talking of rsync and compression is may be also a bit misleading. >> >> On the destination there will be no compressed files if you transfer >> with rsync! > > ...unless you

Re: backing up email / saving maildir on external hard drives

2015-08-11 Thread Christian Schmidt
On 11.08.2015 15:45, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator wrote: > talking of rsync and compression is may be also a bit misleading. > > On the destination there will be no compressed files if you transfer > with rsync! ...unless your dovecot is working with compressed maildir files. ;-) Kind Regards,

Re: backing up email / saving maildir on external hard drives

2015-08-11 Thread Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator
Hi Kevin, if you use maildir, I bet there is not a single mail bigger than 100 MB. So ALL mails are 40 GB, but may be hundreds and thousands small ones ...? Or did you compress all files in one 40GB tar/gz/zip/... ? So fat32 is good for small files. BUT if you like to transfer as well e.g. DVD

Re: backing up email / saving maildir on external hard drives

2015-08-11 Thread Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator
Hi, talking of rsync and compression is may be also a bit misleading. On the destination there will be no compressed files if you transfer with rsync! The transfere on the network by rsync might be compressed! /Götz Am 09.08.15 um 18:33 schrieb Kevin Laurie: > Dear Steve, > Very valua

Convert from Maildir to Mdbox

2015-08-11 Thread J. Echter
Hi, i'd like to convert from maildir to mdbox. what would be the best way to do this? i have read the dsync part of the dovecot wiki but i don't get what i have to use for my setup. my dovecot.conf (the snippets i think would matter): mail_gid = 5000 mail_home = /DATEN/vmail/%d/%n mail_loca