17 Oct
2012
17 Oct
'12
5:51 p.m.
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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