On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 01:43:52PM -0500, Jon Schewe wrote: > I'm looking at trying maildir to get some extra performance and to be > able to have nested folders. However I'm on a system that has a number > of users and I don't want to mess up their mail while I'm testing this. > All of my mail is filtered through procmail (called by postfix) using my > own .procmailrc and I'm wondering if it's possible to have just my mail > put in maildir format by procmail, while everyone else's mail stays in > mbox format? The difference is in the procmail recipe: if the destination ends with a / then it's treated as a maildir. If you have separate recipes for users, it is trivial to modify yours however you want, without impacting anybody else. > Also will I need to run a separate IMAP server for myself to be able to > access these mailboxes, while others still use mbox? Dovecot seems to be able to convert on the fly: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat > And is there a way to convert my mbox mail to maildir format? Yes there are several, but you need to test them. Last time I used a program called 'formail', that comes with 'procmail' and I had some errors - but I was converting some mailman archives which looked like honest mboxes, so I don't know if the bug was in the mailman or in the recipe. It seems now that there are several wrappers around formail: mb2md http://www.gerg.ca/hacks/mb2md/ convert-and-create http://www.averillpark.net/Maildir/ Let us know what works [now]... Cheers, florin -- Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080518/1327e131/attachment.pgp