I am seriously considering the change to Maildir format. I am however
more than a little concerned that this could all go horribly wrong. This
is what I am planning. Does it look sane?
Checklist
1) Stop the mail queue (essentially stop fetchmail)
2) Stop Dovecot
3) Backup all mbox files
4) Edit all procmail recipes (actually I will probably do this first -
working with copies - because this will be time-consuming) See below.
5) Convert mbox files to maildir using either mb2md or dsync (to be
decided)
6) Change Dovecot config
Actually - As far as I can tell no configuration change is required.
Dovecot should just recognise the directories as maildirs. Is this
right?
7) Restart Dovecot
8) Restart Fetchmail
Have I missed anything?
Procmail scripts:
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I am quite concerned about this. I have a directory structure such as:
Home Inbox <-mbox
Work Inbox <-mbox
HobbyFile <-mbox
Malware <-directory
L> Spam <-mbox
L> Virus <-mbox
MLists <-directory
L> Fedora <-mbox
L> Dovecot <-mbox
L> Spamassassin <-mbox
L> ...etc...
My current procmail recipe for one example look like this:
:0:
* ^List-Id:.*users.lists.fedoraproject.org
$DESTDIR/MLists/Fedora
I'm guessing it would need to change to:
:0
* ^List-Id:.*users.lists.fedoraproject.org
$DESTDIR/.MLists.Fedora/
Is that right???
(Note: remove locking colon ":" and use of "." and trailing "/" in path)
Please advise - I am rather nervous of making a rather big mess here!
Thanks
Mark
