[Dovecot] Migration woes from tpop mbox to dovecot maildir

[Timothy Murphy]

On Friday 14 September 2007 16:27:28 FiL @ Kpoxa wrote:

> > I was hoping some one might be able to offer me some advice on a
> > little problem I have. I am looking to A. move from mbox to maildir B.

> I have the very same problem. The only difference is that I have already
> migrated to dovecot and using mbox for both pop3 and imap.
> Am still looking for the good solution to migrate to Maildir without
> making my clients re-download all their mail (they won't get dups with
> imap,
> but downloading gigabytes of mail isn't good idea either.

I have much the same problem,
except that in my case I think my ignorance of dovecot is a major factor.

I have moved all my email (on my server) to ~/Maildir ,
with folders ~/Maildir/inbox/cur , etc.
I'm using kmail under Fedora 7, and have a maildir Account on the server
with the directory ~/Maildir specified in the kmail settings.

Should I actually have an IMAP (or rather IMAPS) Account 
on kmail on the server?
[The kmail documentation on this point is not clear, at least to me.]

I can see my email with kmail on my server OK,
but do not see it on my laptop,
with an IMAPS account specified.

I had already changed mail_location in /etc/dovecot.conf on the server to read
	mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
and re-started dovecot (on the server).

I'm pretty sure I am doing something silly -
any advice or suggestions gratefully received.


but cannot see it with IMAPS spec


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