[Dovecot] how to best import Evolution/Thunderbird mail into dovecot?

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On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 07:57:38PM +0200,
   Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 16:51 +0200, Dennis Guhl wrote:
> > > 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.

> Well as I've mentioned... on looses the info in the From_ lines 
> (that is the RCPT TO address and the date of arrival) because 
> Evolution does not correctly migrated them (actually I'm not sure 
> whether IMAP would allow that).

Perhaps you mean the "^From " mbox delimiter line. You do not need 
mbox delimiters in maildir files. Did you mention whether or not 
you're using maildir?
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