[Dovecot] running DC and UWIMAP on the same box
It never hurts to ask...... I am bringing up DC on my production mailserver (which runs UWIMAP for production IMAP service) to learn and test it, much as I did when I introduced SSL protected IMAP, using an unpublicized non-standard port. The folder and mailbox location and format will remain the same. Questions:
- Will DC be building indices for everything or just for the userid that I use to request client service for?
- Are there any pitfalls others have experience doing this?
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Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources
Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504
sdean@bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 14:45 -0400, Stewart Dean wrote:
It never hurts to ask...... I am bringing up DC on my production mailserver (which runs UWIMAP for production IMAP service) to learn and test it, much as I did when I introduced SSL protected IMAP, using an unpublicized non-standard port. The folder and mailbox location and format will remain the same. Questions:
- Will DC be building indices for everything or just for the userid that I use to request client service for?
Just for those users who you're logging in as. Or even more accurately, only for those mailboxes that it opens.
- Are there any pitfalls others have experience doing this?
I don't think there should be problems. Dovecot's mbox code should be fully compatible with UW-IMAP.
Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 14:45 -0400, Stewart Dean wrote:
It never hurts to ask...... I am bringing up DC on my production mailserver (which runs UWIMAP for production IMAP service) to learn and test it, much as I did when I introduced SSL protected IMAP, using an unpublicized non-standard port. The folder and mailbox location and format will remain the same. Questions:
- Will DC be building indices for everything or just for the userid that I use to request client service for?
Just for those users who you're logging in as. Or even more accurately, only for those mailboxes that it opens.
- Are there any pitfalls others have experience doing this?
I don't think there should be problems. Dovecot's mbox code should be fully compatible with UW-IMAP.
Just don't open the same mailbox with Dovecot and UW-IMAP at the same time! You may also find that UW-IMAP changes the UIDVALIDITY sometimes, which will cause Dovecot to complain next time it opens the mailbox, but Dovecot will be happy again on subsequent opens.
We did this for a couple of months before we migrated to Dovecot.
Best Wishes, Chris
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Chris Wakelin
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Stewart Dean
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Timo Sirainen