> > In any case, I'm trying to find a way to make my IMAP access faster.
> > I've considered converting to Maildir format but can't find an easy way
> > to convert my existing mailboxes.
>
> Debians' uw-imapd package already has the maildir patches the other
> respondent was talking about applied.
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Justin Ryan wrote:
> Hrmf, how do I do this? Can't find any decent documentation, except on
> the basic _format_ of maildir..
>
Actually a maildir is a very simple directory structure.
Make a diectory called ~/Maildir/lists.debian.user and make three
directories under that c
> It's possible but not the real problem. the real problem is inherent in
> the mbox format, all the messages are kept in one file and the entire file
> has to be read into memory. Maildir helps because each message is a
> seperate file. (But the downside is it could waste more space on disk
> t
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 03:45:45PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Justin Ryan wrote:
> > What I'm asking is, essentially, if there is any good documentation on
> > moving from a very basic setup (unix mbox, sendmail going to unix
> > accounts, etc..) to what seems to be a more
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Justin Ryan wrote:
> Hiya Debian-users,
>
> On my mail server running Debian Woody with UW-IMAP and Sendmail, I've
> got ~200M of mail archived into several mbox folders in ~/Mail that I
> check both with IMAP and with mutt. As the folders have gotten larger,
> access has slow
> Have you done a search on google for either "mbox to maildir" or
> "mbox2maildir"? Both give some good results immediately (the latter is a
> qmail tool that I used myself when converting from mbox to maildir --
> though I was doing so so that my MTA [postfix] could deliver to maildir
> so Courie
-- Justin Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
(on Thursday, 05 December 2002, 05:32 PM -0600):
> In any case, I'm trying to find a way to make my IMAP access faster.
> I've considered converting to Maildir format but can't find an easy way
> to convert my existing mailboxes. I've also evaluated moving
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