[ILUG] dkimap

[Kenn Humborg]

> On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 05:30:17PM +0000, Paul Jakma mentioned:
> > so an IMAP server that combines the easy setup of WU with robust IMAP
> > too would be nice. just wondering whether dkimap is it..
> 
>  Courier is! Maildir on the back end, and it talks nice to mutt, netscape
> and Outlook. As it stores the Maildir boxes in your home directory, if
> it's NFS mounted, you can just point mutt etc. at that instead (handy if
> you want to ssh in to the mail server).
> 
>  Very easy to configure...one config file, which isn't rocket science.
> Problem being that your MTA better talk maildir too..

Recent procmails support Maildir out of the box.  Here's the 
relevant bits from my /etc/procmailrc:

   MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/
   DEFAULT=$MAILDIR

Putting a trailing / on the mailbox name tells procmail to 
use Maildir format.

And to convert all your existing mbox mailboxes:

   http://www.bluetree.ie/~kenn/mbox2maildir
   http://www.bluetree.ie/~kenn/convert-user.sh

convert-user goes through /home/<user>/Mail and converts all the
mailboxes found to Maildirs using mbox2maildir.

The only thing that's left is to fix the dates on the messages.
If you just run convert-user.sh, Outlook will show all messages
as having a received date of the time you did the conversion.
I had another script to pull out the From_ line, parse the date
from this line and use touch to set the correct date on the file.
Can't find it here at work, though.  I'm pretty sure I have it
at home.  I'll dig it up this evening...

Needless to say, be vewy vewy carefull when doing this.  Don't
hold me responsible if you hose your users' mail.

Later,
Kenn