[Dovecot] Migrating to dovecot
Johann Spies
jspies at sun.ac.za
Tue Jul 4 17:20:35 EEST 2006
I do not have much experience in setting up imap servers - only that I
have tried several and experienced the same problem with all of them. I
suppose that is because I do not really know the in's and out's of an
imap server.
What I want to do is to setup an IMAP server on my PC with full access
to all the emails already there in a maildir structure.
I have the following setup:
fetchmail -> procmail -> maildir
exim for outgoing mail.
When I install an imap server, I loose access to my present emails in
~/Mail and most imap-servers (dovecot included) seems to create a new
structure within ~/Mail. ~/Maildir is a symlink to ~/Mail.
Now my questions:
1. How do I set up dovecot to serve the present maildir to the user?
2. Related to 1: How do I migrate my emails to the new imap-maildir
structure without losing any?
3. How would my present procmail-setup change? At the moment I have
entries like the following:
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail # you'd better make sure it exists
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/Ander/new # completely optional
:0:
* X-Spam-Flag: YES
saspam/new
:0:
* ^List-Id: <users.spamassassin.apache.org>
spamassassin/new
...
Regards
Johann
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Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch
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trouble."
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