[geeks] Maildir with postfix

[Phil Stracchino]

On 01/21/10 12:32, Mark Benson wrote:
> I have set up and got working postfix and Dovecot for internal-only  
> mail work. I want to use Maildir because the message workload will  
> exceed the capacity of mbox mailboxes (65535 messages iirc). I know  
> what you are about to say about managing e-mail but the situation is  
> what it is.
> 
> Anyhoo, dovecot is latching onto my user ~/Maildir folders just fine,  
> but postfix is not delivering mail there. I added 'home_mailbox =  
> Maildir/' in /etc/postfix/main.cnf which is all that postfix is  
> supposed to require. Am I missing something? I'm fairly new to mail  
> serving, so I may have missed something. Ubuntu Docs are great but a  
> bit basic.

I have an interest in this question too, as I'm looking to migrate over
from mbox to Maildir (with Postfix and mutt) on this machine.  I've
tried mailbox conversion scripts in the past, but they always ended up
leaving me with a bunch of invisible mailfolders.


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