Hi,
running in problems with KMail I decided to switch to dovecot-imap & thunderbird on my kubuntu 12.04 64 bit (so I can read my imap-folder-mails with KMail again if it gets more stable)
What I did:
I wrote a python script to convert my KMail mails folder to a thunderbird mailfolder (directory tree containing mbox files and *.sbd folders)
I created a fake pop mail account in thunderbird and imported the whole mail-structure (i just copied it)
I create a local imap account ( so I have a ~/Maildir dovecot folder in my user dir)
In /etc/dovecot:
/etc/dovecot/10-mail.conf (line 10) I set: mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs
/etc/dovecot/20-imap.conf (line 57) I set: imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep
Now I want to copy the whole mailstructure from my imported fake pop mailfolder to the dovecot imap folder.
What happens:
Lets say my source structure is
mailfolder1
- mail1
- mail2
- subMailFolder2
- mail1-in-subMailFolder2
- mail2-in-subMailFolder2
- subSubMailFolder3
- mail1-in-subMailFolder3
- mail2-in-subMailFolder3
I thunderbird (version 15) I drag and drop my mailFolder1 to the imap folder and I get:
mailfolder1
- mail1
- mail2
- subMailFolder2
- subSubMailFolder3
as you See only the mails of the *TOP* folder are copied. All subfolders are created but they contain NO MAILS.
Did somebody experience the same problem???
Otherwise I will write a python script to do that (I dont hope to need to write a mailclient in python ;-) )
Any hint is greatly welcome.
Anton