Any potential gotchas using Maildir with MailScanner?

[Stephen Swaney]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Mike McMullen
> Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 5:23 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Any potential gotchas using Maildir with MailScanner?
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm considering switching over from mbox format to maildir on our
> IMAP/MailScanner server. (We're small enough the two live quite
> happily on one box.)
> 
> We use MailScanner/SA/ClamAV/Sendmail/Procmail. On a test box,
> I've configured sendmail/procmail/dovecot and they all seem to be working
> with maildir format just fine. I brought over about 20,000-30,000 emails
> and
> folders and converted them from mbox to maildir.
> 
> Are there any potential gotchas to layering MailScanner et all on top of
> sendmail
> /procmail with maildirs that I need to be aware of?
> 
> If my testing continues to go ok, I'd roll it out on the production system
> over the
> new years holiday.
> 
> Any feedback or insight appreciated.
> 

Mike,

We have several customer who run similar setups on single servers without
problems. 

If your local email delivery is setup correctly all will work fine with
MailScanner. 

Steve

Stephen Swaney
Fort Systems Ltd.
stephen.swaney at fsl.com
www.fsl.com

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