How to convert from mbox delivery to maildir?

Neil Bird neil at fnxweb.com
Wed Jul 29 08:01:25 UTC 2009


   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?

-- 
[neil at fnx ~]# rm -f .signature
[neil at fnx ~]# ls -l .signature
ls: .signature: No such file or directory
[neil at fnx ~]# exit




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