On Feb 5, 2009, at 6:56 PM, Scott Silva wrote:
When I finally decide to convert to maildir, will I have to set up namespaces during the conversion, or will dovecot figure out where everything is by itself?
Just adding namespaces won't really help with anything, except unless you want to use both maildir and mbox at the same time.
Should I set up deliver to go to maildir/ globally, or per user?
Depends on if you convert everything at once or one user at a time. Or you can just use convert plugin with deliver and then you don't have to worry about it.
I have considered using the convert plugin, if there are not a lot of negatives.
I don't know if anyone has really used it to do the conversion, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. :) The main negative is that it doesn't preserve message UIDs, so IMAP clients will re-download the messages and if you have any POP3 users that store messages on server they'll get duplicate messages.
