i got the solution~
credit to "web1"
http://forum.ev1servers.net/printthread.php?t=58813
I am sitting on my a s s doing nothing waiting for a update of UW-imap, but someone here said that it's available, so being new to this cpanel thing, can I manually update just that part?
I am a little worried about hitting the update thing in WHM because it will probably just go off and update everything, I haven't done any upgrades yet and have it all set to manual. I like to read the forums before upgrading anything.
I don't like the idea of changing to that maildir thing, it will require any of the imap users to change the way the mailbox is handled. I assume that on pop3 it doesn't matter to the end users because that's not a direct copy of the inbox like imap is.
Also, why do we need this maildir thing anyway? I have "normal" inboxes on my local linux box that are way over 80MB and my mail client "KMail" handles it just fine all these years.
ostyler 10-20-2005 06:01 PM
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Conversion to maildir ... not seamless, but not tooo bad.
I went ahead and pushed the button on the cpanel script to make the move from mbox to maildir.
Here's how it went for me, in case it should prove helpful. The way I did it isn't the easiest way, by far, but it worked ok.
When I pushed the button, Exim was rebuilt, uw-imap was replaced, cppop and imap continued to work fine on regular and ssl ports both. Custom configuration to the /etc/exim.conf file remained in place.
BUT ... the actual conversion of /home/username/mail/inbox files into the respective maildir directories did not occur.
/home/username/mail/cur
/home/username/mail/new
(This is where the new messages live, one file per message)
any new mail sent went into these directories, but the old mail was still in the 'inbox' file.
I poked around and found that the actual conversion of those files is supposed to be handled by /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mb2md/mb2md
(as called by /usr/local/cpanel/bin/convertmaildir). But there was no local copy of mb2md.
I called the support line for cpanel, and was told that running cpup --force should put a copy of mb2md on my machine.
That may work, I don't know. Something about the --force made me leary and by then I had found a copy of (the same program, or one with the same name) mb2md on the net.
Figured it would be faster to run that than to wait on the cpup to run.
I got mb2md from
http://www.gerg.ca/hacks/mb2md
... I put it in /usr/local/bin, along with it's companion
script addtomaildir
I edited mb2md, line 48 to call '/usr/local/bin/addtomaildir' rather than just 'addtomaildir'.
From there you could:
mb2md /home/username/mail/inbox /tmp/mailfix
cp /tmp/mailfix/cur/* /home/username/mail/cur/
cp /tmp/mailfix/new/* /home/username/mail/new/
chown username.mail /home/username/mail/cur/*
chmod 660 username.mail /home/username/mail/cur/*
chown username.mail /home/username/mail/new/*
chmod 660 username.mail /home/username/mail/new/*
Or, if you're doing that more than about 4 times, script it.
Well, OK then.
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http://www.gerg.ca/hacks/mb2md/
mb2md: convert mailbox to Maildir
The traditional Unix mailbox format -- often called "mbox" -- sucks. Maildir, a format invented by Dan Bernstein of qmail fame, sucks much, much less. Unfortunately, all the tools that I could find to convert mbox files to maildirs suck even more than the mbox format itself. (Eg. they do a bogus/incomplete conversion and then delete the input mbox without warning -- that sort of thing.)
So I wrote my own mbox-to-maildir conversion tool, called mb2md (all the obvious names were taken). Bragging points:
mb2md does not destroy your valuable email. It insists that the output maildir not exist when you start, so you know that the output maildir exactly matches the input mbox. More importantly, it does not remove the input mbox when finished -- so if you decide you don't like what mb2md did, you can fallback to your old mbox.
mb2md (or rather, the addtomaildir script that does the real work) takes considerable pains to preserve all useful information from your mbox file. Specifically, new/old/read messages in the mbox remain new/old/read in the maildir. Also, it attempts to figure out the delivery time of each message in the mbox, and sets the mtime of the corresponding message file in the maildir from it -- that way, you can easily sort the maildir by delivery time.
Requirements/download
You'll need three things to make it work:
an external tool to split the input mbox; currently, either one of the following will work:
formail (supplied with procmail)
reformail (supplied with maildrop)
my addtomaildir script, which does the real work of analyzing each message from the mbox and adding it to the maildir (requires Python 2.2 or greater)
the mb2md shell script itself
Obviously, you'll need to make sure that the two scripts are executable after you download them:
chmod +x mb2md addtomaildir
Acknowledgements
Thanks to the following people for patches and so forth:
Roman Neuhauser (neuhauser at bellavista dot cz)
(made it work with reformail in addition to formail)
Freek Dijkstra (freek at macfreek dot nl)
(tweaked "From " regex in addtomaildir to support Postfix)
Share and enjoy!
Alternatives
A couple of people have reported a peculiar problem with mb2md: when formail runs addtomaildir, it runs it as a shell script, not as a Python script. Unsurprisingly, this does not work very well. (Yes, in both cases I told the person to make sure addtomaildir was executable, and in both cases it was.) Unfortunately, since I don't maintain mb2md at all (it's a one-off tool: convert your mailboxes and you're done with it), I have no time to investigate. But there's an alternative: Juri Haberland's mb2md.pl . Give it a try.
