Many thanks Aki. Good to know. I'll look into mdbox as well.
Doug
On 2/17/2022 11:06 AM, Aki Tuomi wrote:
mdbox is compatible with mail crypt plugin, since it works differently compared
to mbox.
Aki
On 17 February 2022 15.58.13 UTC,"cincodemayo...@yahoo.com"
wrote:
Thanks for that Marc
mdbox is compatible with mail crypt plugin, since it works differently compared
to mbox.
Aki
On 17 February 2022 15.58.13 UTC, "cincodemayo...@yahoo.com"
wrote:
>Thanks for that Marc. I'm guessing that mdbox format isn't compatible with
>mail-crypt for the same reasons as mbox. Can anyone con
Thanks for that Marc. I'm guessing that mdbox format isn't compatible with
mail-crypt for the same reasons as mbox. Can anyone confirm?
The built in dovecot dsync utility so far looks much more promising. I have
about 20 users consuming less than 50GB of email storage. I tend to doubt on a
good
What you should also consider if you are using some distributed filesystem or
block devices, is that maildir format created lots of small files, which in
some storage backends will give you quite a bit of storage amplification. That
is why I choose for the mdbox format.
>
> Unfortunately, t
Agreed I am looking to migrate in place, if I migrate at all. I'm still
researching the benefits (aside from mail-encrypt) to using Maildir instead. It
may be the new default, but to me it is an unknown.
I am going to play with the mb2md utility
(https://centos.pkgs.org/7/epel-x86_64/mb2md-3.20
Unfortunately, this document doesn't really address the OP's need,
which is to migrate mailbox formats on the same server. Now migrating
to a new server would work, where the new server was setup to use
maildir as the default.
Maybe a new section could be added talking about this situation in
m
Please read
https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/migrating_mailboxes/
Aki
> On 11/02/2022 21:29 cincodemayo...@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>
> Thank you for confirming. That was the conclusion I came to, particularly
> after seeing the structure of Maildir mailboxes and how the individual
> messages
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 quest
On 11/02/2022 16:26 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
