[Dovecot] mbox to Maildir conversion

[Scott Silva]

on 10-22-2008 9:11 PM Kyle Wheeler spake the following:
> On Wednesday, October 22 at 11:35 PM, quoth Albert E. Whale:
>> I am currently testing a single user, and have successfully converted
>> the mail messages from mbox to Maildir format, and now I am setting up
>> the procmail tool to place the messages into the correct folder.  I
>> have been following the http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat
>> formula, but now have a question.
>>
>> New Messages are now being placed into the ~user/Maildir/new folder.
> 
> Procmail understands Maildir natively; you don't have to tell it to put
> messages into the "new" folder, you should just tell it to put things
> into the Maildir folder and end the line with a /, like so:
> 
>     # correct!
>     :0
>     ~user/Maildir/
> 
>     # incorrect
>     :0
>     ~user/Maildir/new/
> 
>     # also incorrect
>     :0
>     ~user/Maildir/new
> 
> If you specify the "new" directory, you're either telling procmail to
> treat that directory like an MH folder, which is wrong, or you're
> telling procmail that the "new" directory is a Maildir, in which case it
> will create another "new" directory within that directory (along with a
> "tmp" and "cur" directories).
> 
> ~Kyle
I have been thinking about converting also. Will the standard auto detect
routines work with both types during the conversion, or will I need to deal
with namespaces?


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