On 28.3.2013, at 10.51, Paul van der Vlis paul@vandervlis.nl wrote:
A customer has a thin-client server with 100+ homedirs with Evolution. They are using POP3 and maildir. Now I want to switch to IMAP.
Can I use Dovecot on this maildirs, or does Evolution use another kind of maildir?
I'm guessing it uses Dovecot's :LAYOUT=fs directory structure.
Does Dovecot change anything in the maildirs?
Do I loose my flags this way, like "read" ?
I'm not sure, depends on if Evolution stored the flags to maildir filenames. I'm guessing it doesn't, so you'd lose flags.
Normally I am using Cyrus IMAP. What I want to do is to install Dovecot to have access to the mail over IMAP because Dovecot can do maildir (Cyrus cannot). Then I can use imapsync to sync everything to Cyrus. Do you think that's a good idea?
The best way in any case would be to simply configure the new IMAP account to Evolution and copy the messages there using Evolution itself.