[TriLUG] Backing up mail and MySql

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 09:48:31 -0500, Rick DeNatale
<rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1) Mail - Right now my mail spools are in mailbox format. I'm thinking
> that I should consider conversion to another format such as maildir.
> What's involved in such a conversion? Which mail chain programs are
> sensitive to the mailbox format and need to be reconfigured. Heres
> what I'm using now:
>    procmail - I think this needs re-configuring
>    fetchmail - I think that it doesn't care it goes through procmail
>    sendmail - ?
>    uwimap/pop daemon - ?

I recently switched from WU-Imapd to Cyrus Imapd which stores
messages in something similar to maildir.  I wasn't using the 
standard mbox format on UW-Imapd, but their higher performance
mbx format (which, btw, is what the TriLUG imap server uses)
and yet Cyrus Imap blows it away for performance.  I would highly
recommend looking into cyrus.  It is more complicated to setup,
but it's already packaged in both Debian (sarge) and Mandrake.

Cheers,
Tanner