Re: Imap

[Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de>]

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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