On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Miles O'Neal wrote:

> SO... does anyone have an EL5 RPM of the old imapd
> for xinetd, or can anyone definitively tell me that
> dovecot will search and use multiple folder root
> dirs and point me to docs that explain how to do this?
>
> [NOTE: I tend to just say EL because we have a mix
> of SL and CentOS.]
>
Hi Miles,

Take the latest uw-imap from EPEL:

ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5Client/SRPMS/

You may want to use mix mail folders by default. This does increase 
performance substantially. The patch
*** src/osdep/unix/Makefile.orig        2008-10-01 22:16:00.000000000 
+0200
--- src/osdep/unix/Makefile     2008-10-01 22:16:28.000000000 +0200
***************
*** 123,129 ****
   # set certain other formats (e.g. mbx, mx, and mix) as the EMPTYPROTO 
since
   # these formats can never be empty files.

! CREATEPROTO=unixproto
   EMPTYPROTO=unixproto


--- 123,129 ----
   # set certain other formats (e.g. mbx, mx, and mix) as the EMPTYPROTO 
since
   # these formats can never be empty files.

! CREATEPROTO=mixproto
   EMPTYPROTO=unixproto

would do the job. Be warned however that a different default mail folder 
format (for new folders) has implications on your overall mail setup.

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