[BlueOnyx:03745] Re: Changing procmail from mbox to Maildir

[Rickard Osser]

Hi Menno,

as a comment to Michaels description you can actually turn on maildir
for everything else than the inbox... I'm using that on both BO/Bluapp
working perfectly.

You'll need to convert ~/mail to maildir for each user imported with cmu
but that's a simple script.

Regards,

Rickard

On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 00:24 +0100, Michael Stauber wrote:
> Hi Menno,
> 
> > Can anyone tell me if BlueOnyx will have problems if I change procmail,
> > dovecot and squirrelmail configs to use Maildir?
> 
> That's indeed a bit problematic. Sure, you can edit /etc/procmailrc to switch 
> it from mbox to maildir and then run a conversion script to convert existing 
> mailboxed from mbox to maildir. 
> 
> But then the problems start:
> 
> You'd need to update the Dovecot and the Squirrelmail config. Additionally 
> third party software may expect mbox instead of maildir and will then also 
> either require changes, or won't work. Like the Solarspeed OpenWebmail, 
> RoundCube and the AV-SPAM, which all expect mbox instead of maildir.
> 
> Additionally: If you change it manually, then the change *will* revert back 
> whenever certain modules of BlueOnyx are updated. For example: Right now there 
> is an update to the modules base-blueonyx and base-email in the works. Both of 
> them will revert the system back to mbox, which we see as default.
>