I was just asking since I saw your gmx.net address, I thought this could be some large scale stuff and then iops and the used storage have requirements on your mail format. If you only have a few thousand accounts it does not matter that much (I guess)
> > It was a decision we have not been involved in. That's it. > We have to do what we are paid for. > But I did not want to start a meta-discussion. I was looking for ideas > and technical experience. > (And I agree with Justina that maildir seems to be much more manageable. > It is a well-known format.) > > > Gesendet: Samstag, 13. August 2022 um 21:08 Uhr > Von: "justina colmena ~biz" <just...@colmena.biz> > An: dovecot@dovecot.org > Betreff: RE: convert mdbox to maildir > *My* inbox gets filled with thousands of emails, more or less commercial > content and trivial notifications from shopping online, and postfix > crashes and will not accept new messages if the file "/var/mail/justina" > becomes too large. > > Configuring postfix to deliver the mail to "~/Maildir" solved that > problem. > > I still need to configure a sieve or a filter or some nicer mechanism to > clear out messages that are either outright spam or too old or no longer > of interest to me. > > On August 13, 2022 10:00:36 AM AKDT, Marc <m...@f1-outsourcing.eu> > wrote: > > > > > We need to move all users from one (pretty old) installation > of dovecot > to a new one. > The old one uses mdbox for users' mailboxes and maildir for > shared/public mailboxes. > The new one must be maildir only. > > > why did you decide to move to maildir? > > > > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
