Thanks for everybody's tips on the mbox to maildirs converter. I was unaware that Maildirs was a common format not specific to dovecot, so I was searching using a dovecot keyword. I'm having this problem now with inboxes. I want to use maildirs, but my mail is delivered to an mbox. I can't seem to get dovecot to recognize the inbox location. Is something like: maildir:%h/Maildir:INBOX=/var/mail/%u impossible to use? What I'm trying to do is slowly merge people from mboxes to maildirs, so I have to use the passwd file per user maildirs settings with some sort of recognizeable inbox. I'm using sendmail as my mail server. Do I have to tell that to put the mail in the right inbox format? Thanks. __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel and more fun for the weekend. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/weekend.html
--On Wednesday, June 01, 2005 12:17 PM -0700 Mark Winslow <martingerxt at yahoo.com> wrote:> I'm using sendmail as my mail server. Do I have to > tell that to put the mail in the right inbox format?sendmail doesn't deliver. It invokes a "local mailer" to do that. On Red Hat and Fedora systems that's normally procmail. So you need to tell procmail (via /etc/procmailrc or ~/.procmailrc) how to deliver.
> Thanks for everybody's tips on the mbox to maildirs > converter. I was unaware that Maildirs was a common > format not specific to dovecot, so I was searching > using a dovecot keyword. > > I'm having this problem now with inboxes. I want to > use maildirs, but my mail is delivered to an mbox. I > can't seem to get dovecot to recognize the inbox > location. Is something like: > > maildir:%h/Maildir:INBOX=/var/mail/%u impossible to > use? > > What I'm trying to do is slowly merge people from > mboxes to maildirs, so I have to use the passwd file > per user maildirs settings with some sort of > recognizeable inbox. > > I'm using sendmail as my mail server. Do I have to > tell that to put the mail in the right inbox format? >My first post on here: I found this old thread and am trying in vain to achieve the same. In short should something like the following work?: location = maildir:/home/virtual/%d/home/%n:INBOX=mbox:/home/virtual/%d/var/spool/mail/%n I am trying to have my user's use MailDir within their own home folders but Dovecot needs to read a standard MBOX format incoming mail spool file. This seems a fairly reaonsable requirement since lots (most?) delivery programs are used to delivering to standard mbox files. An auxillary question: is it possible for Dovecot to 'slurp' those mbox files into a local maildir INBOX folder to keep things fast? Thanks for any help from an enthusiastic dovecot newbie! Daniel