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I am considering switching over to maildirs, but I have some obstacles
which I am wondering if there is a easy solution for.

PROs: prevents truncation/corruption of mbox files and works nicely over
      NFS. i also need maildirs for some of the other qmail
scripts/programs.

CONs: * pine4 doesn't support maildirs, but there are scripts etc that
        come with the distribution that can go around this by converting
        maildirs to mbox format so pine can read it
      * qpopper doesn't work, cuz they don't have support for maildirs
        either. i will have a downtime if i switch over to qmail-pop3. i
        have never used it so thats why the downtime length is uncertain.
      * i am guessing biff doesn't work with maildirs... i was wondering
        if qbiff will work, i was not able to get it to work.

Are there any other cons to switching over to maildirs? I am pretty much
using qmail on a shell/isp type server. So, it'll be running the usual
apache,
bind, qmail etc. Nothing totally special. Have any experiences switching
over to maildirs?

Thanks.

-
Anil

In the .qmail file have two entries like this

./Maildir/
./Mailbox

Pine can read from Mailbox and qmail-pop3d can read from Maildir/.
The downside (?) is that a user that does this gets two copies of
messages.

Quote:>       * qpopper doesn't work, cuz they don't have support for maildirs
>    either. i will have a downtime if i switch over to qmail-pop3. i
>    have never used it so thats why the downtime length is uncertain.

Run qmail-pop on a different port for testing purposes and simply
move it to port 110 when/if you get all the mailboxes converted to Maildir
format.

Quote:>       * i am guessing biff doesn't work with maildirs... i was wondering
>    if qbiff will work, i was not able to get it to work.

Don't know, sorry.

Quote:

> Are there any other cons to switching over to maildirs? I am pretty much
> using qmail on a shell/isp type server. So, it'll be running the usual
> apache,
> bind, qmail etc. Nothing totally special. Have any experiences switching
> over to maildirs?

One nicety is that users with 40 meg mailboxes that check the server for
new messages once a minute no longer kill our server. With new messages
going to Maildir/new and read messages that are left on the server
migrated to Maildir/cur, that makes it easy to chunk old messages that
have been read when space gets tight.

--

Barrett

Quote:> Thanks.

> -
> Anil