On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 13:31 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > > >On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 13:13, T. Horsnell wrote: > > > > > > > >>When we addressed these > >>issues, mail response improved dramatically, even with the > >>compatible-but-horribly-slow mbox format (which we maintain > >>partly because of inertiia and partly because many users > >>want to read their mail with different mailers depending > >>where they are) > >> > >> > > > >I've had the same kind of inertia and was wondering if it > >would be possible to configure dovecot to read mbox format > >in the spool directory but read and create maildir format > >in additional folders? Or to configure delivery per user > >with .procmailrc files and have dovecot figure out which > >format to use on the fly? > > > > > > > > Part of the install process of the RPM could be improved to include > mailbox migration in an automated format... And perhaps automatically > creating mailboxes for everyone with a uid >= 500 (whether they > currently have a mailbox or not). > > Installing Outlook, Netscape, Thunderbird... all try to import mailboxes. > Why not for cyrus as well? The integration would sendmail and spamassassin > could be better, too (assuming that one isn't using a milter, that is). > > Personally I like the way Cyrus works, but on the other hand the learning > curve initially is steeper than it has to be. > > Having nested mailboxes rocks. Too bad dovecot doesn't support that. ---- yeah - nested mailboxes too... Cyrus has no code whatsoever for migrating users - Andrew Morgan has some code for doing it but you cannot retain the IMAP flags and thus, it all shows up as new mail. You can use a little program called 'imapsync' to move the mail from one server to another - dissimilar doesn't matter and it preserves the imap flags (seen/replied etc.) but it's not very fast as it operates like an IMAP client and requires the username/password combination for both servers/systems. Since cyrus has a number of perl interfaces for it, it's not hard to create a script from a list of names and create the mailboxes, etc. Craig
