[Dovecot] importing outlook express messages to dovecot imap server

[Angelo Chen]

Hi,

Nice approach, but the it's Thunderbird, what I have is outlook Express.

Angelo

On Jun 25, 2010, at 2:02 PM, Patrick Nagel wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 2010-06-25 03:51 UTC Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> Angelo Chen put forth on 6/24/2010 10:25 PM:
>>> 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?
>> 
>> Look at it this way:  One way or another, in one format or another, you
>> will have to copy the data over the network from the PC to the Dovecot
>> server.  If you use the method myself and others have recommended, once
>> the data is copied to the IMAP folders, you are done.
>> 
>> Now, if you do it the other way, which is copying raw files over, you then
>> have to convert them to maildir format.  It's a multi-step process.  And
>> could be error prone.
>> 
>> The first method is a single step process and is reliable.
> 
> I tried something similar (with Thunderbird) once, and it caused a lot of 
> trouble. We only had around 1.3 GB, IIRC, but thousands of folders. Here is a 
> blog article that I wrote after I got it done with a perl script:
> 
> https://patrick-nagel.net/blog/archives/77
> 
> Patrick.
> 
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