[Dovecot] UW-IMAP to Dovecot conversion - How to migrate the folders?
Patrick - South Valley Internet
patrickm at garlic.com
Thu Aug 23 01:57:18 EEST 2007
Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 21 at 02:15 PM, quoth Patrick - South Valley Internet:
>> What's even more odd is that when I created a new folder within
>> Outlook Express, I see it in /home/USERNAME/Maildir/subscriptions,
>> but I don't see the folder anywhere...how does Dovecot see these IMAP
>> folders? Is there some sort of tag that is contained within each
>> Maildir email that tells what folder it goes in to?
>
> The new folders are created with names prefixed by a period.
>
> For example, imagine you have the following IMAP folders (subfolders
> separated by a slash (/)):
>
> INBOX
> Sent
> Trash
> Drafts
> INBOX/Business
> INBOX/Family
>
> These would typically be stored like so:
>
> /home/USERNAME/Maildir/ <-- "INBOX"
> /home/USERNAME/Maildir/.Sent/
> /home/USERNAME/Maildir/.Trash/
> /home/USERNAME/Maildir/.Drafts/
> /home/USERNAME/Maildir/.INBOX.Business/
> /home/USERNAME/Maildir/.INBOX.Family/
>
> Doing a simple `ls` in the Maildir won't show the other folders,
> because they begin with a period (and are considered "hidden" by ls).
> Do an `ls -a` and they'll show up. That's standard Maildir++ layout,
> which is what you get when your config says:
>
> mail_location = maildir:%h/Maildir
>
> ~Kyle
Yes I finally figured that out yesterday. Once I figured that out,
everything else fell into place.
Thanks again for all the help.
Patrick
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