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[José Matos]

On Tuesday 01 February 2011 13:01:55 Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I keep my email on a CentOS server, in ~/Maildir/ .
> I run dovecot/IMAP on the server,
> so that I can read the email on various Fedora laptops.
> 
> I want to off-load some email folders containing old email,
> eg In-05, Out-05, etc, perhaps to a directory ~/Archive/ .
> 
> a) What is the best way to do this?
> Would simply mv-ing ~/Maildir/.In-05 to ~/Archive/ confuse dovecot?
> 
> b) If I then want to read the old email in ~/Archive/
> how can I do this with KMail?
> 
> Any suggestions or advice gratefully received.

I did the same. In my case since I was unsure what to do I used kmail to 
transfer all the mail to the dovecot server I created, using an imap 
interface. Inefficient? No doubt, but it worked and I did not care anymore 
about it... :-)

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José Abílio