Implementing IMAP advice for first timer

[Anish Mistry]

On Wednesday 24 May 2006 02:55, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> On May 23, 2006, at 11:14 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote:
> >> Installing it from ports (/usr/ports/mail/courier-imap) is
> >> pretty straightforward, and most settings can be left at the
> >> default, at least
> >
> > True, except...
> >
> > Courrier-imap is using maildir mailboxes, so unless the existing
> > system already uses maildir, there will be some disturbance at
> > the conversion time.
>
> Can be done very minimally.  When we converted from mbox to maildir
> (coincidentally to courier) about 4 years ago we just did it in the
> middle of the night and had a script that converted the mbox to
> maildir (found on a qmail site) and it went fast and quick and mail
> access was turned off for only a short time...
>
> Probably less of a hassle then moving to cyrus but my experience
> with cyrus was long ago
I made the switch from an mbox -> cyrus/maildir setup several months 
ago and it went smoothly.  You just need to make sure you run 
reconstruct after the conversion so the index is up to date.
-- 
Anish Mistry
amistry at am-productions.biz
AM Productions http://am-productions.biz/
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