From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 24 06:55:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5558B16A491 for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 06:55:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (mail.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AADB43D45 for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 06:55:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.171.127.191] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1FinHG-000GOU-TI; Wed, 24 May 2006 00:55:31 -0600 In-Reply-To: <200605240514.k4O5EvSE060976@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <20060524032337.M97496@enabled.com> <4473E535.7060708@voidcaptain.com> <200605240514.k4O5EvSE060976@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <40180F76-5B02-466F-B9D2-AEA2E585FDA5@shire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 00:55:30 -0600 To: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.171.127.191 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: admin2@enabled.com Subject: Re: Implementing IMAP advice for first timer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 06:55:35 -0000 On May 23, 2006, at 11:14 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote: >> Installing it from ports (/usr/ports/mail/courier-imap) is pretty >> straightforward, and most settings can be left at the default, at >> least > > True, except... > > Courrier-imap is using maildir mailboxes, so unless the existing > system already uses maildir, there will be some disturbance at the > conversion time. Can be done very minimally. When we converted from mbox to maildir (coincidentally to courier) about 4 years ago we just did it in the middle of the night and had a script that converted the mbox to maildir (found on a qmail site) and it went fast and quick and mail access was turned off for only a short time... Probably less of a hassle then moving to cyrus but my experience with cyrus was long ago Chad > > Olivier > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net