Maildir

[Justin Bennett]

ok. sounds good. I'm gonna load up a test box and start playing..
Thanks


Mark T. Valites wrote:

>On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Justin Bennett wrote:
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>>Thanks guys, What I really need is to do subdirectories on folders, I'm
>>using procmail right now so it wouldn't be much of an issue I don't
>>believe. Just need an IMAP sever that will do it. Courier I've heard
>>good things, can you get RPM versions? Just makes it easier to keep it
>>updated.  Also I assume I will have enourmous greif trying to convert
>>current MBOX based inboxes and imap folders to maildir format. Yeah the
>>procmail info would be great.
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>Subdirectories are no problem. I'm sure there are rpms of courier-imap.
>Also note that you want courier imap. Courier is the full blown suite.
>
>Converting mailboxes isn't all too overly painfull. Search for scripts
>named "mbox2maildir". They do a pretty good job.
>
>Some things to watch for:
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>- existing folders with a '.' in their name will need to be renamed if
>you go with courier. (I used '_'.)
>
>- the conversion of mbox to maildir will create a message saying "DO NOT
>DELETE THIS MESSAGE -INTERNAL DATA" (or something like that...). I left it around cause it
>couldn't hurt, but just save yourself lots of phone calls and have your
>script delete it.
>
>- the existing perl scripts don't set the time stamp on the newly created
>maildir messages. this can break things & make programs not display
>messages in the proper order. You need some perl to set the ctime on the
>files - let me know if you need the script...
>
>- pine reading Maildir *through the fs* just dosen't play right, even if
>patched to add Maildir support. I recommend setting up pine to imap to
>localhost. I have docs if you need it & tricks to use ssh so no extra
>password prompt is needed when entering pine
>
>- while mail clients are supposed to use the imap protocol to detect the
>folder prefix (INBOX.) for courier, some do not. I have a list of the ones
>we support here & what to enter for the "broken" ones. Again, let me know
>if you need it.
>
>- if you are using a test environment to check out the mbox2maildir
>scripts, your production environment will take A LOT longer to run the
>scripts due to file system fragmentation. What took me 10 hours on a 233pc
>with ide drives took me 35 hours on a dual sunfire 280R with fibre drives
>
>- ~.mailboxlist's new incarnation is ~Maildir/.courierimapsubscribed with
>courier imap
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Justin Bennett
Network Administrator
RHCE (Redhat Certified Linux Engineer)
Dynabrade, Inc.
8989 Sheridan Dr.
Clarence, NY 14031
 

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