[Dovecot] Migrating from Maildir to Maildir:LAYOUT=fs

Christian Schmidt Christian.Schmidt at chemie.uni-hamburg.de
Tue Aug 27 12:30:01 EEST 2013


Hello Rainer,

24.08.2013 12:42, Rainer M Krug:
> I have use dovecot together with offlineimap to download my gmail
> account on a single user computer and I have only one maildir
> (~/Maildir).
> 
> As I switched to Mac, I would like to use spotlight to index my mails,
> which apparently does not work as they are in hidden directories
> (.directories). So I would like to change to LAYOUT=fs. Is there an easy
> way to migrate my email structure? I have several folders and
> subfolders, but a manual solution would be fine with me as well. 

Wouldn't it be best for spotlight if you used "local storage" for your
mails? In other words: Just download them from your server into your
local account. The you're done, and spoltlight will be able to index them.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Christian Schmidt

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