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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