Tim: >> It *MAY* be that kmail doesn't use maildir files in the same way as >> dovecot does. Timothy Murphy: > That is certainly the case. > KMail stores the folder "Private", say, in ~/Mail/Private/ > with subdirectories ~/Mail/Private/[cur,new,tmp] > (assuming maildir format is being used). > > Dovecot IMAP stores the folder "Private" in the directory > ~/Mail/.Private/ , again with subdirectories cur,new,tmp . > I don't think this is anything to do with dovecot; > it is the IMAP method. > > I don't understand why this complication is introduced; > the fact that kmail works without it shows that it is unnecessary. I suppose the question is: Which one is the odd one out? Is kmail doing it peculiarly, or the other, or is there no real standard for either of them to follow? > 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. Perhaps another client? I have Dovecot running on an old FC4 box, using mailspool files. That's turned out to be a problem with several thousand messages in some spools. I've been trying Dovecot on FC7 using maildir format, copying messages over to see if I could improve things. Maildir does seem somewhat better, but I don't have equivelent machines running the two things, to compare them properly. Anyway... Thus far, the simplest way I found to move a bunch of messages from one place to another was as a mailspool file, splitting it apart at the destination. I did that the bruteforce and ignorance way: Concatenated the spool file onto the end of my /var/spool/mail file, and then went and got my new mail, letting my mail client handle dragging in mail from the spool, and putting them onto the IMAP server. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
