On Thursday 27 April 2006 00:44, Ed Greshko wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Wednesday 26 April 2006 22:59, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> Gene Heskett wrote: >>>> 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. >>> >>> He wants you to copy/move the folders from the old box to the new >>> box using your email client (evolution, thunderbird, whatever). >>> This will use the IMAP protocol to take the mails and upload them >>> to new box. In the process, all mailbox format conversions will be >>> done automagically. >> >> That I'd assume means I can see them from the new box, I can't, at >> least not enough to convince me its looking at the imap server on >> this FC2 box. I have about 65 folders, and I'm only seeing 3 IIRC. > >I'm having a bit of a hard time understanding your terminology. > >But, you have 2 systems. An FC2 with your old mails and and FC5 > system where you to move/copy the old mails to. Today, what email > client do you use to access your emails on the FC2 system? > Kmail. Mail is fetched by fetchmail, processed by procmail and spamd, and placed in the inbox, kmail then sorts it to the various folders. All this is on this box, the FC2 box, and I installed dovecot on this box. >I believe you have installed the IMAP server dovecot on your FC5 > system. No, unless its running by default for an FC5 install. >You then run your email client on the FC2 system (what client?) With >that client you should be able to access your emails as you always > have. Yes? > Then in your email client you create a new account that > points to the IMAP server on FC5. Ahh, the light becomes faintly visible, run dovecot o the FC5 box. >At this point, in a single email client you should see your old emails >as well as access the new account. Since this is an IMAP server you >will probably see Inbox, Sent, and Trash Folders. And a couple others. >Create whatever folders you want on the FC5 system. Then go into each >folder on your FC2 system and select all or whatever messages you want >to copy and then copy from one account to another. > >It may be easiest for me to take s screen shot to show you what I mean >using Thunderbird....but I hesitate to post a screen shot on a mailing >list as others may take a "scream shot" at me for doing so... :-) Send it direct, using the address mods in my sig please. >-- >"Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a > few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build > car'." --John Sladek :-) -- 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.
