[Dovecot] Migration woes from tpop mbox to dovecot maildir

[Timothy Murphy]

On Saturday 15 September 2007 15:21:14 Charles Marcus wrote:

> As for the rest - you aren't being very clear about your issue, so I'm
> afraid I can't help you.

I think the issue is fairly clear.
I said in my posting:
> > I can see my email with kmail on my server OK, but do not see it on
> > my laptop, with an IMAPS account specified.

It seems from Timo Sirainen's response
that kmail's maildir format is actually incompatible 
with dovecot's IMAP format.
More precisely, kmail cannot access folders in IMAP format
(as eg ~/Maildir/.inbox/cur)
while IMAP cannot access folders in kmail format
(as eg ~/Maildir/inbox/cur)

If that is correct then I find it astonishing
that neither dovecot nor kmail point out this incompatibility.

Is there, incidentally, a simple script that will convert
kmail maildir format to something that dovecot likes?

I take it that if I converted kmail on my server to maildir++ format
then I could read it on the server as an IMAP account?


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