Q re moving email to diff machine

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Apr 26 05:08:54 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 21:39, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
> 
> As I'm going to be out of pocket for a bit, I'd like to take the email 
> archive thats collected on this FC2 machine for quite some time, and 
> move it over to the FC5 lappy I'm taking along.  Unforch, its a tossup 
> mixture of maildir and mailfile formats here, which kmail handles well 
> without complaints.
> 
> I guess its evolution that will be used on the FC5 machine.
> 
> So whats the best way to import the corpus of this installs email, to 
> the fc5 box?

Start dovecot, set up an IMAP acount on your client pointing to
it, create some folders, select your messages, drag to the new
folder.  You'll be able to access them from evolution or other
IMAP clients from the same box or anywhere else.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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