On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Neil Bird<neil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I had a problem in another thread in which it was suggested I use maildir > instead of mbox as a spool store. I've had a good old google around, and I > can't for the life of me find any one place that really tells me anything. > > Does anyone have any pointers? > > > For ref., I have a fetchmail -> sendmail -> procmail set up (although the > sendmail/procmail are pretty much the default install), which dump incoming > mail to /var/spool/mail/<user> [I have spamassassin in the equation as well, > with one proc recipe to dump spam into a sep. spool mbox]. > > I then use dovecot with IMAP/POP locally to get that mail into ThunderBird, > and also serve it up (that that's still in the spool) from squirrelmail. > > I plan to fully move all incoming mail accesses to IMAP, with users (well, > the family :) ) filing from the IMAP Inbox to local folders as and when, > with no POP fetching or auto copying frmo the IMAP folder into Local/Inbox. > For that, it'd be good to have a reliable mail store, which sounds like I > need to bin the spool area. > > How does 'maildir' fit into this? What manitains it? Where would > root's/other-local mail go - still to /var/spool? Dovecot supports Maildir natively, but, not Sendmail. Since, you are already using procmail, there should be no problem delivering to Maildir format. Here are a couple of links to help you understand more about this format - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir Also, you might find the `mb2md' perl script useful to convert your current Mbox mails to Maildir - http://www.gerg.ca/hacks/mb2md/ NOTE: I have used the above script before and it has worked for me, however, standard precautionary practice of taking a backup and performing a test deployment applies. Didar -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
