[Dovecot] how to best import Evolution/Thunderbird mail into dovecot?
Dennis Guhl
dg at dguhl.org
Wed Oct 17 17:51:44 EEST 2012
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 01:21:14AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Hi.
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> First thing I tried was to simply copy mail within Evolution (i.e.
> dragging&dropping it from the local folders to the IMAP folders from
> dovecot).
This seems to be the smartest idea.
> - that preserves the status from Evolution, but doesn't restore that
> from Thunderbird
Why not use TB to copy the emails from your 'TB mboxes' to Dovecot?
This way I moved around 25 GiB of emails from >> 50 mbox files,
created with TB 3.6 way down to some 0.x beta, to Dovecot -- without
any issues I could recall.
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> - neither does it remove the Thunderbird or the X-Evolution-Source
> headers
If they bug you remove them with sed or awk or perl or python or ...
Dennis
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