Re: [Dovecot] Want to have some users with Maildir, some with mbox

2010-02-01 Thread Stewart Dean
GREAT! Timo Sirainen wrote: Yes. Yes. :) Getting to Yes! :) 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

Re: [Dovecot] Want to have some users with Maildir, some with mbox

2010-02-01 Thread WJCarpenter
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat shows a bunch of scripts, one of them claims to preserve UIDs. Does anyone here have direct successful experience with this? I only asked about this because a comment on that same page says, None of the solutions described below preserve the

Re: [Dovecot] Want to have some users with Maildir, some with mbox

2010-01-30 Thread WJCarpenter
On 1/29/2010 4:11 PM, WJCarpenter wrote: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat shows a bunch of scripts, one of them claims to preserve UIDs. Does anyone here have direct successful experience with this? I only asked about this because a comment on that same page says, None of the

[Dovecot] Want to have some users with Maildir, some with mbox

2010-01-29 Thread Stewart Dean
Want to have some users with Maildir, some with mbox, as I migrate from mbox format to maildir over the space of a month. After everyone is converted to maildir, I'll change the mail_location in dovecot.conf. During the interim, can I use the Custom mailbox location script (at the bottom of

Re: [Dovecot] Want to have some users with Maildir, some with mbox

2010-01-29 Thread Timo Sirainen
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

Re: [Dovecot] Want to have some users with Maildir, some with mbox

2010-01-29 Thread WJCarpenter
BTW. Are you also using a script that preserves IMAP UIDs? Otherwise IMAP clients will re-download all the mail. Does the convert plugin preserve the UIDs? The wiki implies that it doesn't, but I thought maybe since it's implemented as a plugin that maybe it does (or that maybe the caution

Re: [Dovecot] Want to have some users with Maildir, some with mbox

2010-01-29 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 30.1.2010, at 0.26, WJCarpenter wrote: BTW. Are you also using a script that preserves IMAP UIDs? Otherwise IMAP clients will re-download all the mail. Does the convert plugin preserve the UIDs? The wiki implies that it doesn't, but I thought maybe since it's implemented as a plugin

Re: [Dovecot] Want to have some users with Maildir, some with mbox

2010-01-29 Thread WJCarpenter
BTW. Are you also using a script that preserves IMAP UIDs? Otherwise IMAP clients will re-download all the mail. Does the convert plugin preserve the UIDs? The wiki implies that it doesn't, but I thought maybe since it's implemented as a plugin that maybe it does (or that maybe the

Re: [Dovecot] Want to have some users with Maildir, some with mbox

2010-01-29 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 30.1.2010, at 1.39, WJCarpenter wrote: So, what is the answer for pre-2.0 folks who want to do mbox-Maildir conversion? I have not yet found a script that claims to preserve UIDs. Is there one that people use? http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat shows a bunch of scripts, one

Re: [Dovecot] Want to have some users with Maildir, some with mbox

2010-01-29 Thread WJCarpenter
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat shows a bunch of scripts, one of them claims to preserve UIDs. Does anyone here have direct successful experience with this? I only asked about this because a comment on that same page says, None of the solutions described below preserve