KMail + IMAP - help urgently sought
Anne Wilson
cannewilson at googlemail.com
Wed May 23 07:13:01 UTC 2007
On Wednesday 23 May 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
> Thanks very much for your help (and everyone else).
>
> I now have my system running with kmail + dovecot using maildir format.
>
> The setup is rather confused at present,
> eg I apparently have two inbox folders, Local Folders/inbox and IMAP/inbox,
> whose contents differ slightly but which seem to converge after a time.
That sounds as though you set KMail to use dimap. I've never used it, but I
presume that mail from your imap inbox is copied across from time to time.
> Also the folders on my desktop and laptop are different.
They shouldn't be, except for local folders.
>
> But the system seems to be working - the mail is coming through,
> and kmail is no longer hanging (touch wood).
>
Good
> The changeover to the new format took a couple of hours.
> One of the problems might have been that I did not allow for this,
> and was trying to read mail during the transfer.
>
Not really a good idea :-) but probably didn't harm much.
> I now have
> mail_location = maildir:~/Mail/inbox
> in /etc/dovecot.conf .
> It didn't seem to like maildir:~/Mail
> or maildir:~/Maildir even though I created a Maildir directory.
My line is
default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir
>
> The old folders in ~/mail/ , which dovecot created in its mbox phase,
> are still there in mbox format.
> Hopefully I'll be able to import them to the new setup.
>
You can do this from the client. If, for instance you have a fedora-user
folder, created a maildir folder next to it called 'fedora-user2'. Drag
messages into the new folder. I'd advise doing it in batches, rather than
hundreds or thousands at a time. When you've got them all moved, delete the
old folder and rename the new one.
>
Anne
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