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> under http://www.daimi.au.dk/~miksen/IMAP/#inboxToMbx I found the following
> solution:

> " Changing to the mbx format
> Currently the default format for new IMAP mailboxes is the Unix
> mail format.  To switch to the much more efficient mbx format you
> should create a .imaprc file inside your IMAP root folder
> (e.g. ~/IMAP/.imaprc) containing exactly the following:

>   I accept the risk for IMAP toolkit 4.1.
>   set new-folder-format mbx

> > Hallo,

> > under http://www.daimi.au.dk/~miksen/IMAP/#inboxToMbx I found the
following
> > solution:

> > " Changing to the mbx format
> > Currently the default format for new IMAP mailboxes is the Unix
> > mail format.  To switch to the much more efficient mbx format you
> > should create a .imaprc file inside your IMAP root folder
> > (e.g. ~/IMAP/.imaprc) containing exactly the following:

> >   I accept the risk for IMAP toolkit 4.1.
> >   set new-folder-format mbx

> The text text of the first line is actually: something that begins with
> "I accept the risk" . Maybe when he write this config file he was in the
same
> mood as I was when I wrote my config file.

> Anyway, I believe that the current default is that imapd does not check
for
> user config files ($HOME/.imaprc and $HOME/.mminit by default, IIRC).

> If you are a server administrator you can add changes on a server-wide
> configuration file: /etc/c-client .

> Here's my /etc/c-lcient again:

> I accept the risk of using UW-imapd
> #set allow-user-config 1
> set disable-automatic-shared-namespaces 1
> set mail-subdirectory mail
> set public-home-directory /path/to/mailman/archives/public/

> (With the current parset: any line that does not begin with 's' is
ignored,
> IIRC)

> Remove the '#' to enable user configurations. I disabled it because I'm
not
> sure how throughly this parser was tested, and I didn't wantusers being
able
> to stress-test it for volnurabilities.

> > Don't be to scared by the first line -- it simply is there to keep
people
> > from changing the IMAP configuration without knowing what they are
doing.
> > Note that this configurations ensures that all NEW mail files created
> > from within the mail client are created in the mbx format. To convert
your
> > old mail folders to the mbx format see below."

> First of all, make sure you have imap-utils installed. Because you really
want
> to be able to manipulate the mailbox on your own (e.g: you do use
procmail,
> don't you?

> > I tried this, but it doesn't work. The new mailboxes are still in
> > mbox-format....is there an other way?

> I figure that this file was simply never read. Maybe try running imapd
under
> strace locally to be sure?

> --
> Tzafrir Cohen

> http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir

>under http://www.daimi.au.dk/~miksen/IMAP/#inboxToMbx I found the following
>solution:

>" Changing to the mbx format
>Currently the default format for new IMAP mailboxes is the Unix
>mail format.  To switch to the much more efficient mbx format you
>should create a .imaprc file inside your IMAP root folder
>(e.g. ~/IMAP/.imaprc) containing exactly the following:
>I accept the risk for IMAP toolkit 4.1.
>set new-folder-format mbx
>Don't be to scared by the first line -- it simply is there to keep people
>from changing the IMAP configuration without knowing what they are doing.
>Note that this configurations ensures that all NEW mail files created
>from within the mail client are created in the mbx format. To convert your
>old mail folders to the mbx format see below."

>I tried this, but it doesn't work. The new mailboxes are still in
>mbox-format....is there an other way?

>bye, Jonas Lindert