For an ISP/webhost style email setup, what is better, mbox or maildir? Everyone seems to recommend maildir, but the issue I'm thinking of is if people decide to store their mail on server it will eventually run out of inodes, and I'm sure reading 1 single file is much faster then reading thousands,
View 4 RepliesHow would it be possible for a cpanel system to "convert" from maildir back to mbox without direct intention / invention?
The story
1) Mail (with mailscanner - maildir) works fine for months - Exim failed and don't want to restart
2) Contact support company - Fixed and restarted exim
3) No email for 30 hours - Techs checked, tested, removed mailscanner and confirmed everything works fine
4) Found the problem myself - Email system still on maildir but exim delivered mail to INBOX folder instead than the maildir folders so I fixed it by running the maildir conversion to move the mail in inbox to the correct maildir folders.
5) The server support company insist that THEY did not break the system and everything working fine etc but I am sure that I am correct.
a) Stopped to receive any email direct after their tech fixed the exim issue. (After I did the conversion I got over 400 emails, the first of them the email from them that said exim is now fixed and restarted)
b) They created test email account and confirmed with tests that everything works fine but I think that the newly created email account would be a MBOX account and thus working fine while the rest of the email accounts on the server would still be maildir accounts and thus not receiving any emails until I ran the conversion script.
I am no server admin or tech so I cannot say what error would turn mailbox back to mbox hence the question above.
(Important - It worries me a bit as to why exim failed in the first place and while the first mail I received from the techs sort of "proof" that something they did caused the backwards conversion it's also possible that something else such as an automatic update caused this - Since exim failed I would not receive any mail at all, and after the tech restarted exim their email would be the first to land in the inbox instead of maildir folders)
Maybe worthwhile to investigate the reason why exim failed and what caused the turn from maildir to mbox because I think it would then be a global cpanel issue.
We are running RHEL 4 servers using sendmail, qpopper and UW Imap. Right now we are using the old mbox format for user mail and now we are suffering from inefficiency.
Has anybody gone through the conversion process when there are a LOT of existing accounts and we want to avoid service interruptions.
I have a vps with directadmin and some servers with cPanel.
I need migrate the emails of a client (only 1 client) in the directadmin server to the cPanel Server.
The problem:
The directadmin use mbox format email, and cPanel use Maildir format email.
(Note: The converter not work exactly for my issue).
Been having problems with 2 specific sites on a server, this is one of the domains i'm having issues with.
I went under edit a dns zone and viewed the DNS of some of my domains and some of them have DNS I have not added before. This is also happening when I create new accounts on Cpanel.
for example, on one of the domains I added, it shows the DNS as "ns45.domaincontrol.com" under edit a DNS zone. These are not my DNS servers nor did I add those. What would be causing this?
Also getting this error when I try to change anything.
Edit DNS Zone
Modifying Zone aqscleanair.com
/tmp/cpanel.TMP.z0rrkh4clSQa7eqg:13: warning: ns2.,databeyond.com.aqscleanair.com: bad name (check-names)
zone aqscleanair.com/IN: loaded serial 2008010404
OK
Bind reloading on borg using rndc zone: [aqscleanair.com]
Warning: deprecated mbox still in use. Please switch to maildir soon.
Reconfiguring Local Mail: This server will serve as the primary mail exchanger for aqscleanair.com's mail.
I have 465 emails in .mbox format:
1180056800.000448.mbox_2,S
and inside:
Quote:
Return-Path: <<removed>>
From: <<removed>>
To: <email-address@gmail.com>
Subject: the subject- disregard
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:16:05 -0500
Message-ID: <CCBC5E16-6FEC-49DB-AEF6-3B9131F688C3@verizon.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3)
Thread-Index: Acci4VFHa4z1GsINTFy0kBgEiy1OFA==
X-OlkEid: 3E245E20C77FC375020B624294176339C7BA73C1
Status: RO
X-Status:
X-Keywords:
X-UID: 453
Sorry - user error!
I didn't get that the screen wasn't going to say anything. Followed
directions again. WOrked just fine.
While adding an addon domain I received this message below:
Quote:
Warning: deprecated mbox still in use. Please switch to maildir soon. Warning: deprecated mbox still in use. Please switch to maildir soon.
Does anyone know if is it possible? If yes, how could I do this?
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