From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 24 14:07:34 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 D766916A47F for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 14:07:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amistry@am-productions.biz) Received: from mail.united-ware.com (am-productions.biz [69.61.164.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3854543D49 for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 14:07:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from amistry@am-productions.biz) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (am-productions.biz [69.61.164.22]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.united-ware.com (8.13.4/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4OE8uOW052276 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 24 May 2006 10:09:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from amistry@am-productions.biz) From: Anish Mistry Organization: AM Productions To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 10:07:58 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060524032337.M97496@enabled.com> <200605240514.k4O5EvSE060976@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <40180F76-5B02-466F-B9D2-AEA2E585FDA5@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <40180F76-5B02-466F-B9D2-AEA2E585FDA5@shire.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart5494825.EmW66bZi3v"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200605241008.08036.amistry@am-productions.biz> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_80, MYFREEBSD2 autolearn=no version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on mail.united-ware.com X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.2/1479/Wed May 24 01:17:23 2006 on mail.united-ware.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: admin2@enabled.com, "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" 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 14:07:35 -0000 --nextPart5494825.EmW66bZi3v Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 24 May 2006 02:55, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > 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 I made the switch from an mbox -> cyrus/maildir setup several months=20 ago and it went smoothly. You just need to make sure you run=20 reconstruct after the conversion so the index is up to date. =2D-=20 Anish Mistry amistry@am-productions.biz AM Productions http://am-productions.biz/ --nextPart5494825.EmW66bZi3v Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEdGjHxqA5ziudZT0RAsWCAKCuDhyqv0a9du4uQH3Cn+/nKf91JgCgzNPK efB3BiXjJ20BOqyqrYK3Ln0= =Bbmv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5494825.EmW66bZi3v--