[ale] POP-to-IMAP (dovecot) conversion

[James P. Kinney III]

An easy way to do this is to use thunderbird itself.

Create the new imap account and leave the old pop alone except to turn
off the auto checking for new messages. Create new folders to mirror the
old structure. Now drag the old folders content from the pop account to
the new imap folders. <ctl>-A to select all and drag-n-drop _or_
copy-n-paste. Now the old mail will be on the server instead of the
client.

On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 09:36 -0400, J. D. Pearson wrote:
> Hey ALE'rs,
> 
>       I am trying to migrate some people from POP to IMAP so that the 
> user's old email is accessible from multiple clients. Currently the 
> users are running Thunderbird or Netscape on Redhat so their email is 
> stored in their home directory (such as /home/user/.thunderbird). I 
> would like to somehow copy their old email into IMAP but have been (so 
> far) unable to find a recommended way of doing this.
> 
> After configuring thunderbird to use an IMAP account it creates a mail 
> directory in the users home (ex: /home/user/mail). I have tried copying 
> the users old mail from 
> /home/user/.thunderbird/niy65vn6.default/Mail/192.168.1.15/Inbox.sbd/
> 
> to
> 
> /home/user/mail.
> 
> I can then go into thunderbird and click "File" and "Subscribe" to make 
> the mail viewable in the new imap account in thunderbird. There are 
> problems with this though:
> 
> 1. Cannot create subdirectories in the email client.
> 2. Some of the imported subdirectories give error messages on trying to 
> access them or are displayed with a .sdb extension.
> 
> Is this a problem between mbox and maildir formatting?
> Is there a correct or funcional way to do this? A cleaner way to 
> approach it perhaps? What do you all think or suggest?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> J. D.
> 
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