Tere.

Sysadmin wrote:

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Hello.

This isn't actually a dovecot question, but I'm running in clienys servers dovecot mostly as pop3 server and now started to migrate some servers to imap.

But as clients uses Outlook Express how to transfer their pop3 settings and mailboxes to imap?. Making a new mail account for imap is easy, and drag & drop the default folders (inbox, outbox etc) messages to imap accounts default folders is easy, but what about subfolders? Some users have hundreds subfolders and creating them & transfering messages by hand is a pain.

So have anyone a better and faster solution how to migrate Outlook Express pop3 account to the imap account, preserving the same folders, rules etc.

I found with OE I could drag whole trees of folders from one location to another without issue. This actually made it the most useful tool we had to unlock our users from using OE - previously all employee mail was stored on a shared drive, but in whatever format their mail client used.

Some of our users have many complex hierarchies of folders, but with OE I just created another account, dragged their folders over, and hey presto - it was done (after a while :)

Hmm, just tried, XP, Outlook Express, pop3 account, folders are:

Loval Folders Inbox - Test1 Outbox Sent Items Deleted Items Drafts Test2 Test3

Then I made for the same user also in same Outlook Express imap account. And all I can is drag & drop messages for example from pop3 inbox to the imap inbox. But I can't drag & drop any folder from pop3 to imap account. What kind of trick did You use, to do this?

Don't know about the settings though - I assume you mean filters and sorting?

Yes.

-- Sysadmin