On Wednesday 26 April 2006 22:18, Les Mikesell wrote: >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. 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.) >> 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. >-- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx Thanks Les. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
