Thank you for confirming. That was the conclusion I came to, particularly
after seeing the structure of Maildir mailboxes and how the individual messages
were encrypted. Clearly it would be difficult to do the same with an unlimited
number of messages stored in a single file.
A followup question if I may. I probably should just start another thread, but,
how difficult is it to convert to Maildir? Any gotchas? Any differences in how
to manage the server? How effective is the mb2md? Not looking for a cookbook,
just an opinion on whether it is worth converting.
We've used mbox format going back before CentOS 5, so change is hard.
Environment is CentOS 7, Dovecot, Sendmail, Pigeonhole, MailScanner, Mailwatch
SQL, Thunderbird clients.
Thanks,Doug
On Friday, February 11, 2022, 09:31:09 AM EST, Aki Tuomi
<aki.tu...@open-xchange.com> wrote:
On 11/02/2022 16:26 cincodemayo...@yahoo.com <cincodemayo...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
Hi,
My Dovecot server of many years has been set up to use mbox email folders. I
want to implement mail-crypt and after banging my head against a wall for a few
days trying to get mail-crypt to work I decided to try it against a test
instance of my server that I reset to use Maildir format and mail-crypt worked
instantly.
Does mail-crypt work with mbox format mail folders, or am I wasting my time
unless I switch over to Maildir? The documentation at
https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/mail_crypt_plugin/ doesn't
explicitly say Maildir is required.
Thanks in advance,
Doug
Mail crypt will not work with it. Mbox format has limited support of
features. ---
Aki Tuomi
