[Dovecot] importing outlook express messages to dovecot imap server

[Angelo Chen]

hi, i just tried 3.x, it looks like i can't drag and drop sub folders, and one problem is, imap folders are on top, and local folders(imported from outlook) are below, and it has more than 300, drag and drop toward imap folders on top is very difficult.

On Jun 26, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:

> Charles Marcus put forth on 6/25/2010 7:25 AM:
>> On 2010-06-25 3:19 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>>> It's interesting that you weren't able/willing to track down the 
>>> source of the problem. It's also interesting how you mention "single
>>> drag and drop". In my experience, you can't drag/drop _folders_ in
>>> Thunderbird at all. All the migrations I've done this way required
>>> creating new folders on the IMAP server (Dovecot), group selecting
>>> all of the mail in the respective source folder, and selecting "copy"
>>> or "move" to the destination folder. I couldn't find a way to
>>> drag/drop a folder of group of folders. Care to share your secret?
>> 
>> No secret - TB used to not like dragging entire folders at all, but
>> slowly got better - and with 3.0, it got much better.
>> 
>> I just tested some (moving about 4GB Sent folder to a gmail account)
>> with 3.1rc2, and it moved everything perfectly, although it took a few
>> hours...
>> 
>> There were no sub folders though... I'll test that next...
> 
> Ahh, ok.  I think the last time I did such a migration was in the 2.x days,
> which actually wasn't all that long ago. Last fall maybe?  Oct/Nov 2009?
> Somewhere around there IIRC.
> 
> -- 
> Stan
> 
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