On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI < edua...@kalinowski.com.br> wrote:
> Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > Hello people, > > > > Since the invention of this storage called dbox, I have never quite > gotten > > round to understanding it, nor getting to use it. It seems so strange to > me > > and I must ask a few stupid questions about it. > > I use the MTA to deliver mail to Maildir, either in ~/Maildir or > > /some/path/%d/%n/Maildir. It has always beat me how dbox comes into play > > under such circumstances. From the wiki, I see the following: > > "dbox supports a quick migration from Maildir format" - now this leaves > me > > hanging. How? Suppose I migrate from Maildir to dbox, what changes do I > make > > to the MTA to understand that I use dbox? > > Ok, I use Exim as my MTA. > > > > I hope someone can explain to me what I need to do to Exim and what to do > th > > Dovecot so that I can test this dbox thing. > > And suppose I want to transfer userA's mail to UserB, what do I do? With > > Maildir, I can simply do something like > > > > exim does not know about dbox (it's a dovecot-specific format). You'd > need to configure exim to use dovecot's deliver as LDA. There are > instructions for that in the Wiki. I thought so. Now I have seen, read and understood (so far) http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Exim. However I do not see any examples for configuring dovecot for dbox. Is it as easy as s/maildir/dbox/g in the following: mail_location = maildir:/var/spool/virtual/%d/%n/Maildir:INDEX=/var/dovecot/%u:CONTROL=/var/dovecot/%u And suppose I wanted to redeliver mail stored in dbox, using the MTA?? For example, I have used the following script to redeliver mail stored in Maildir: #!/bin/sh # email=$(find $*) # { for x in ${email}; do sendmail odhia...@gmail.com < ${x}; done } I'd invoke this as `/path/to/script /dir/to/list` (/path/to/script Maidir/new for instance) Ok. Sorry it looks like I have unending questions:( -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby." - Natalie Wood
