Somebody in the thread at some point said: >> You *may* have to avoid doing it that way. Use an IMAP mail client, and >> connect to the IMAP server to configure your mailboxes, even if they're >> on the same machine. You're less likely to upset things, that way. > > I have come to this conclusion too. Pretty sure that is a good conclusion. > But I am not sure of the best way to move the messages > from the old setup to the new. > When I tried what seemed the obvious way, > by having Local and IMAP accounts on the server, > kmail got into some kind of loop because there were two inbox'es. I was learning how to use procmail the other day with Dovecot, which I wrote up here http://warmcat.com/_wp/?p=37#more-37 What I found was that sticking the mail files into <Dovecot store>/.<foldername>/new caused Dovecot to understand that new mail had come (which it then seemed to copy into .<foldername>/<something else> so they weren't new any more but part of the folder). <Dovecot Store> might be something like ~/Maildir for the current users' mail. So I would try picking a message file from the deprecated maildir setup's folder dir, and copying it into the Dovecot store .<foldername>/new, and seeing if when you switch to looking at that folder in Thunderbird, you can now see the new foreign message (and it is gone from .<foldername>/new). If that works then if you are sure there are no dupes, just mass move them the same way. -Andy
