8 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-usersRe: [courier-users] namespaces and mb...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Tracy R Reed | Feb 9, 2001 10:32 am | |
| Brian Candler | Feb 9, 2001 12:06 pm | |
| Sam Varshavchik | Feb 9, 2001 2:47 pm | |
| Tracy R Reed | Feb 9, 2001 3:00 pm | |
| Tracy R Reed | Feb 9, 2001 3:02 pm | |
| Sam Varshavchik | Feb 9, 2001 3:21 pm | |
| Brian Candler | Feb 10, 2001 2:49 am | |
| Mike Jackson | Feb 12, 2001 5:34 am |
| Subject: | Re: [courier-users] namespaces and mbox conversion | |
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| From: | Brian Candler (B.Ca...@pobox.com) | |
| Date: | Feb 9, 2001 12:06:52 pm | |
| List: | net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users | |
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 10:32:29AM -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote:
The main problem I am having is figuring out how to get courier-imap to read maildirs in other places such as in the home directory itself. I have read the RFC
You just tell Courier where you want the root Maildir (i.e. the 'INBOX') and it can access other Maildirs underneath there.
So if you tell it to use '/home/fred' as the maildir then you will get:
/home/fred/cur # INBOX /new /tmp /.subfolder/cur # INBOX.subfolder /.subfolder/new /.subfolder/tmp
although more conventionally (and by default) you would use:
/home/fred/Maildir/cur /new /tmp /.subfolder/cur /.subfolder/new /.subfolder/tmp
You can't 'climb outside' the root folder (thankfully :-)
Converting 40G on this machine will take 16 hours best-case. It would be nice if we could do it a little at a time but courier only does Maildir (how inconvenient) and obviously only one daemon can listen on 143.
You might consider using a proxy while migrating. I have never used it myself, but have a look at this: http://perdition.sourceforge.net/
For tools to convert mbox to Maildir, just look on http://www.qmail.org/ for "User-Contributed Maildir Support"
Brian.