On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 20:46, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > >> 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. > > Ok, I've installed dovecot-0.99 or thereabouts from the rpm, is there > a .conf file I have to generate for dovecot? 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. > 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? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
