[Dovecot] POP to IMAP Transition
I am using Dovecot IMAP and added an IMAP folder to an Outlook client
which is also popping another account. Both account folders exist in the
same client. I am wondering if I can drag the pop-ed mail to the IMAP
folder, thereby transferring old mail to the IMAP folder? Outlook allows
me to click and drag folders into the IMAP folder.
You see where I am going with this, I wnat to transition from the old POP
accounts to the new IMAP accounts and delete the old folders. Is this
possible? I'd love to hear from someone who has done this.
======== Yudhvir Singh Sidhu Systems Administrator Industry-University Cooperative Research Program www.ucdiscoverygrant.org 2087 Addison Street, 2nd Floor Berkeley, CA 94720-3340 510 643 4039 fax 510 643 7839
* On 11/08/06 08:00 -0700, Yudhvir Singh Sidhu wrote:
| I am using Dovecot IMAP and added an IMAP folder to an Outlook client
| which is also popping another account. Both account folders exist in the
| same client. I am wondering if I can drag the pop-ed mail to the IMAP
| folder, thereby transferring old mail to the IMAP folder? Outlook allows
| me to click and drag folders into the IMAP folder.
<Switching to layman mode>
Does it allow you to drag and drop ONLY empty folders?
I'd try dragging the mail and see what happens, anyway!
</Switch>
| You see where I am going with this, I wnat to transition from the old POP
| accounts to the new IMAP accounts and delete the old folders. Is this
| possible?
I don't understand what you mean. How are the mails currently stored?
mbox? Then mb2md is a nifty util you can use to convert mbox to maildir.
-Wash
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Yudhvir Singh Sidhu wrote:
I am using Dovecot IMAP and added an IMAP folder to an Outlook client which is also popping another account. Both account folders exist in the same client. I am wondering if I can drag the pop-ed mail to the IMAP folder, thereby transferring old mail to the IMAP folder? Outlook allows me to click and drag folders into the IMAP folder.
This is how I migrated our company from POP to IMAP. As it turned out, Outlook was the best tool (at the time) to rid us of our dependency on Outlook :P
You see where I am going with this, I wnat to transition from the old POP accounts to the new IMAP accounts and delete the old folders. Is this possible? I'd love to hear from someone who has done this.
It worked, and it worked well.
Of course, back up your originals, and try a COPY instead of a MOVE, just to be safe :)
-- Curtis Maloney cmaloney@cardgate.net
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