How to do Mailbox Conversion in WHM in Dedicated Hosting Plan?
Linux Dedicated Server allows you to host multiple websites under your web hosting space. MDBox is the most promising and demanding feature in the latest cPanel and it is the most appealing feature. There is a huge benefit of converting from Maildir to MDBox.
Both Maildir and MDBox are the storage formats used by the mail application on the cPanel server. There are lots of differences, but the most important one is that email stored with Maildir uses a simple 1-to-1 format, while MDBox uses a many-to-1 format. Compressing one mail and to be stored in a single file will lower inode usage as well as the disk space usage.
Meantime we can migrate, transfer account by taking the backup can be done in a small fraction of time.
Main advantage of MDBox over maildir are listed below.
*Reduces inode usages.
*Improves performance
*Great for accounts with large amounts of emails.
Steps to convert mailbox via WHM
1) Login to WHM
2) Click the button -Email
3) Then click on Mailbox conversion
4) Select the format to convert mailboxes and click the button Next.
5) Select the checkboxes for the accounts to convert and click on Next.
6) Click the button “Convert” to convert the mailboxes for the selected accounts.