Q re moving email to diff machine

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 21:53, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >
> >FC5 should have 1.00beta-something and the stock config should
> >let you connect as an IMAP acount with your user login/password
> >and the folders you create will land under mail/ in your
> >home directory.  If you've installed some earlier version
> >I'd remove it because the config file changes at 1.x.
> 
> I was refering to this FC2 box Mike, where the corpus of email resides, 
> some in maildir folders and some in mailfile folders (cause I didn't 
> know the diff when I set it up a couple of years ago.)

You can use more than one mailer to collect the messages
if necessary.

> >> The other box is only
> >> seeing a small amount of old messages, missing 60 out of 62 or so
> >> folders setup in kmail on this machine.  They may even exist from a
> >> limited run to get the mail without deleting from the servers when I
> >> was playing with evolution 2 weeks before.
> >
> >I'm not sure what you mean here.  I expected you to add an IMAP
> >account on the mailer that already had the messages, create
> >folders on the new dovecot server and drag them over, after which
> >any client should see them.  Did they get lost before you
> >could push them into the imap folders?
> 
> Now I'm not understanding what you want me to do.  Is this something I 
> do on this FC2 box where these folders live?  These are kmail-1.7 
> folders, from a kde-3.3.0 built by konstruct install.  On this FC2 box.

First set up the new server to receive the messages.  This will
be dovecot on the FC5 box.  If you want, you can set up an
IMAP account in evolution on the same box to test it and perhaps
create the folders you want.   Then go back to the machine where
the existing messages are and the mailer that knows how to
access them.  Add a new IMAP account in that mailer connecting
as a client to the new server.   You should then be able to see the new
folders along with the old ones containing the messages.  From
there, select the messages and copy or move them into the new
folders on the other machine.  Most mailers let you do this either
as a drag-and-drop operation or a right-mouse menu choice.  Once
they have been copied into the folders on the new server you
will be able to access them from any IMAP client anywhere that
has network access to the server.  If you have some messages that
are now in local folders in both kmail and evolution, you may
have to do the same operation from both to get them all over
to the new server.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com