Changing from mbox to maildir after installing ISPConfig
 

Hello everyone,

I've configured Debian 3.1 to Falko's 'perfect' spec with mbox style mail using popd for pop3 access. ISPConfig has been working great with no problems, I've even done two upgrades without a single issue (2.2.0 to 2.2.1 to 2.2.2 I think.). For some reason I wasn't thinking when I set the mail system up. What I really want is Courier with Maildirs. Currently there are no working mail accounts on the new server (I'm moving all my clients from an old server to ISPConfig setup); the only accounts I've created for each web is one for ftp access so I could transfer the websites. I've pretty much moved and configured everything except the mail.
My old setup is a running qmail with vpopmail which makes me more comfortable with maildirs. However, I've been wanting to switch to postfix for some time now.

Would this work (#1 and 2 taken from the howto):

1)
apt-get install courier-imap courier-imap-ssl courier-pop courier-pop-ssl

postconf -e 'home_mailbox = Maildir/'
postconf -e 'mailbox_command ='
/etc/init.d/postfix restart

2)
Change the the ispconfig setup under Management for maildirs.

3)
Remove the user accounts I created for ftp access and re-adding them. (will this create ownership issues of the existing /var/www/... files I ftp'ed with the old accounts?)

thanks,
rustin

Yes.

You don't need this if you use ISPConfig.


Correct.

Don't remove them. Just change something in the ISPConfig interface for these users, e.g. enable Mailscan and then disable it again later on. This will make ISPConfig rewrite the mail configuration for the users.

Hi,

If you have old mails in mbox (not downloaded by clients) you can convert them to Maildir by "mb2md" program.

Best regards,
MvincM

Hi guys glad to find a thread with a similar query to my own.

My situation is that I neglected to install courier-pop & etc before installing ISPConfig. I guess the install didn't check for it? I had installed postfix in advance though. Now we've got a dozen sites published and a customer that wants to have serious email support.. so we have to get email working after all.

Check out this code and tell me how screwed up my installation is:

:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

Why would I get the mail in my maildir? it's clearly to another email address.

If you want to get a stable email system, use maildir and not mbox for mail storage. Just redo all steps for the mail configuration from the perfect setup guide for your linux distribution and enable maildir support in ispconfig.

holy cow i think i missed a bunch of the pages to the ultimate install, or maybe just skipped over some? anyways was a while back that i installed it originally.

It seems to be working for me now. My last concern is that the pop3 session takes only the username and not the domain, but i remember coming across a fix for this in one of the forums.

IE i would like to have an info@domain.com for each domain, each with it's own mailbox. 'telnet localhost pop3' requires that i don't use the trailing @domain.com so i'm concerned that there would actually be more than one mailbox. for anyone named info at any of the domains we host..

anyways THANKS! :)

Cheers
Harvey

The part in front of the @ sign is not the username. Please do not mix up usernames and email addresses, this are 2 different fields in the user settings. Also ISPConfig uses a username prefix to avaoid the problem.

Hi,

is there a way to get ispconfig to "force-rewrite" the .procmailrc of every user on the system?

Regards

maildir mailbox problem after server move
 

i have moved a complete ispconfig server to another machine, everything is working perfect except that the old server uses mbox and i want the new to use Maildir

i have made everything needed for the maildir but users that was moved from the old server still receive their mails in /var/mail/username

example .procmailrc of such user:

anybody has an ide whats going on...

You can try this: