Hello,
I'm taking baby steps to convert my mailboxes from Maildir to mdbox in 11.60. One account conversion seems to have gone off without a hitch but I've got questions.
- I chose to keep the old mailbox files; however, since the conversion seems to be OK, how do I get rid of these files? Do I just delete the "storage" directories that were created in the mail directory?
- What do we have to know about creating and restoring from backups now? With Maildir, it was just a matter of restoring files to the mail directories, but what about with mdbox?
- How concerned should I be about corrupted indexes and the like? My understanding is that the indexes hold all of the important metadata (flags, message status), and that losing the index effectively loses all of that. Does the risk of losing email increase with mdbox?
Thanks for any help here!
Any help here? I've got a few gigs worth of old emails that are eating up too much space and I really need to clear them out.
I'm taking baby steps to convert my mailboxes from Maildir to mdbox in 11.60. One account conversion seems to have gone off without a hitch but I've got questions.
- I chose to keep the old mailbox files; however, since the conversion seems to be OK, how do I get rid of these files? Do I just delete the "storage" directories that were created in the mail directory?
- What do we have to know about creating and restoring from backups now? With Maildir, it was just a matter of restoring files to the mail directories, but what about with mdbox?
- How concerned should I be about corrupted indexes and the like? My understanding is that the indexes hold all of the important metadata (flags, message status), and that losing the index effectively loses all of that. Does the risk of losing email increase with mdbox?
Thanks for any help here!
Any help here? I've got a few gigs worth of old emails that are eating up too much space and I really need to clear them out.
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