Matteo Niccoli: [ Charset ISO-8859-15 unsupported, converting... ] > Hi, > > Suppose to have 1.000.000 maildir mailboxes using this > path: > > /MAIL/$1/$2/$3/$4/$5/$address.$domain/folders/Maildir/ > > where $1 is the first letter of the recipient, $2 is the > second, and so on. Like this example: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > /MAIL/f/o/o/b/a/foobar.antani/folders/Maildir/ > > If we have an address with length less of 5 characters, > we shift the domain on the left: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > /MAIL/f/o/o/a/n/foo.antani/folders/Maildir/ > > In /folders/ dir we have also .qmail files. > > Actually we use a patched version of Qmail to deliver > email to this mailboxes, but my boss ask me to write a > migration plan from Qmail to Postfix. > > How to fix this using postfix? We need to patch source > code like Qmail, o we can solve it using some workaround > or smart configuration?
Look at the virtual(8) delivery agent. It uses lookup tables to map a recipient to a pathname, and to look up the UID/GID information. Such tables can be generated programmatically. http://www.postfix.org/virtual.8.html http://www.postfix.org/VIRTUAL_README.html Wietse
