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From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@juniper.net>
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Cc: Greg Groth <ggroth@gregs-garage.com>, Ronw@bals.org,
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Subject: Re: Migrating from mbox to maildir (was Re: IMAP server
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Javier Henderson wrote:
>> I saw a dramatic improvement in speed with both Thunderbird and  
>> Squirrelmail after switching from mbox to maildir.
> 
> How did you handle the transition from mbox to maildir?
> 
> -jav

I just moved one of our mail servers over to postfix and dovecot using 
maildir. There is a wonderful tool in the ports collection that migrates 
  an mbox file to maildir. It's call mb2md and can be found at

/usr/ports/mail/mb2md


Josef

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