On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 10:12:17 +0200 Renaud Allard <renaud@???>
wrote:
>
> That's exactly what I have done. First moving to dovecot from UW-imap
> and then switching to Maildir.
>
> What you should know is that UW-imap keep a "beginning of mailbox"
> message in your mbox. Dovecot doesn't, so all your users will receive
> a mail like "this is the beginning of your mail folder, don't delete
> this message". It's quite obvious that there is no risk in deleting
> it because dovecot doesn't care about this message and shows it as a
> real message. So your users may be surprised if you don't tell them
> before the switch.
>
This may be true of Dovecot 0.99.x but Dovecot-1.0-testXX and
Dovecot-1.0-stable (which is a "stable" version of the 1.0-test series
intended for those needing 1.0-test features in production systems)
understand the pseudo-message.
Best Wishes,
Chris
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