[Dovecot] importing outlook express messages to dovecot imap server

[Angelo Chen]

Hi Sitan,

I think that's one option, but it's around 10G data for the last few years, and more than 100 folders under outlook express, do you think that will be fast enough by using Outlook Express copying option to an imap account?

Thanks,

On Jun 25, 2010, at 11:21 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:

> Greg Pearson put forth on 6/24/2010 5:23 AM:
>> 
>>> I have a local Dovecot 1.1.4 running. I have a big number of outlook
>>> express messages that I like to put into Maildir so that I can use
>>> Dovecot's imap to access. I can convert them into mbox format. any
>>> available means for me to import outlook express/mbox messages into
>>> Maildir/Dovecot? command line will be preferred, Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Angelo
>> 
>> Perhaps you can first convert them to mbox and then to Maildir. See:
>> 
>> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat
> 
> Why not just setup the IMAP connection in Outlook, create IMAP folder(s) on
> the Dovecot server, and then just copy or move the messages over from Outlook
> local folders to IMAP folders?  That's the simplest, most straight forward,
> and least wrought with potential problems, method.  I've migrated many a
> standalone Tbird client with local storage to IMAP via this method.  Works great.
> 
> -- 
> Stan
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