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Scripting

Courier-IMAP to Dovecot Migration Script

I’ve just migrated a couple of servers from Courier-IMAP to Dovecot, and am very happy with the latter so far. I thought I’d share the courier2dovecot shell script I whipped together (based on the instructions I found in the migration how-to), for converting Courier-IMAP maildirs to Dovecot format. While the script is rather simple, it […]

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Linux

Create a Courier-imap shared Spam folder

My aim is to ask procmail to deliver everyone’s spam emails into “shared.System.Spam” IMAP folder. All my mail-receiving users belong to a unix group called “users“. I need to create the shared maildir first. I put all my shared folders under “/var/spool/Maildir“, so first I will create a “System” sharable maildir, and then create a […]

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