I do not have much experience in setting up imap servers - only that I have tried several and experienced the same problem with all of them. I suppose that is because I do not really know the in's and out's of an imap server.
What I want to do is to setup an IMAP server on my PC with full access to all the emails already there in a maildir structure.
I have the following setup:
fetchmail -> procmail -> maildir
exim for outgoing mail.
When I install an imap server, I loose access to my present emails in ~/Mail and most imap-servers (dovecot included) seems to create a new structure within ~/Mail. ~/Maildir is a symlink to ~/Mail.
Now my questions:
How do I set up dovecot to serve the present maildir to the user?
Related to 1: How do I migrate my emails to the new imap-maildir structure without losing any?
How would my present procmail-setup change? At the moment I have entries like the following:
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail # you'd better make sure it exists DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/Ander/new # completely optional :0:
- X-Spam-Flag: YES saspam/new
:0:
- ^List-Id:
spamassassin/new ...
Regards Johann
Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch
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