Am 2005-11-21 04:16:02, schrieb Nate Duehr:
> That went surprisingly well.
>
> Steps on a stock Debian stable system that was just running basically
> default configuration exim4 and uw-imap were:
>
> 1. Shut down incoming mail/Stop exim.
> 2. su to each user in /var/spool/mail and convert their mbox mailbox to
> Maildir in their home directory. (This machine doesn't have a lot of
> users or I would have written a little script to do it.) The default of
> mb2md -m as long as you're the user you're converting works fine. The
> examples in /usr/share/doc/mb2md/USAGE.gz worked fine for anything else.
> 3. Check each user's ~/Mail folder for additional IMAP folders, and
> convert those.
> 4. Add these lines to each user's .procmailrc that had one:
> MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/
From the procmaildocumentation:
Do not add a "/" at the Maildir. Use only
MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir
> DEFAULT=$MAILDIR
> 5. Munge paths in each user's .procmailrc to the new path with a
> trailing / to tell procmail that this is now a Maildir folder.
> 6. Edit /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf and add:
> dc_localdelivery=maildir_home
> 7. Use aptitude to replace uw-imap with courier-imap and
> courier-imap-ssl (and the pop3 junk since a few people use it on this
> box too), and leave courier-mta out.
> 8. Run squirrelmail-configure and set to "courier" and remove default
> folder of ~/Mail for uw-imap.
> 9. Restart everything.
> 10. Reconfigure clients, fix subscriptions if needed, resynchronize, and
> remove ~/Mail from any client configurations.
> 11. Get used to the huge performance increase and mailboxes named
> INBOX.Something instead of a pretty tree. ;-) Benchmarking so far
> appears to yield about a five-fold increase in speed on synchronization
> and unmeasurable (it's too fast!) increases just looking at headers.
>
> Should have done this long ago!
>
> Nice!
>
> Nate
Greetings
Michelle
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