Hi,
Nice approach, but the it's Thunderbird, what I have is outlook Express.
Angelo
On Jun 25, 2010, at 2:02 PM, Patrick Nagel wrote:
Hi,
On 2010-06-25 03:51 UTC Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Angelo Chen put forth on 6/24/2010 10:25 PM:
I think that's one option, but it's around 10G data for the last few years, and more than 100 folders under outlook express, do you think that will be fast enough by using Outlook Express copying option to an imap account?
Look at it this way: One way or another, in one format or another, you will have to copy the data over the network from the PC to the Dovecot server. If you use the method myself and others have recommended, once the data is copied to the IMAP folders, you are done.
Now, if you do it the other way, which is copying raw files over, you then have to convert them to maildir format. It's a multi-step process. And could be error prone.
The first method is a single step process and is reliable.
I tried something similar (with Thunderbird) once, and it caused a lot of trouble. We only had around 1.3 GB, IIRC, but thousands of folders. Here is a blog article that I wrote after I got it done with a perl script:
https://patrick-nagel.net/blog/archives/77
Patrick.
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