[Dovecot] Import from Evolution

[Patrick Ben Koetter]

* Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh at pacbell.net>:
> On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 22:16 +0200, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
> > * Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh at pacbell.net>:
> > > I need to import the mail database generated by the evolution mail
> > > reader into dovecot.  Evolution stores its mail in maildir format (fully
> > > standards compatible, I think); I would be using the maildir format in
> > > dovecot.  Is there anything in the wiki, etc. explaining exactly how to 
> > > do this?
> > > 
> > > Why do this?  Evolution is hopelessly broken, and is not likely to be 
> > > fixed in the forseeable future, and I would like to keep my mails in
> > > maildir form.  Reviews of kmail are very bad, and thunderbird uses the
> > > mbox format for storage.
> > 
> > If it is native maildir you can configure that/your account to use maildir and
> > simply copy your mailbox over to Dovecot. When Dovecot accesses the mailbox it
> > will create the necessary index files and you are ready to use it.
> 
> Sounds good.  
> 
> I'm sure than when you write "mailbox", you mean the folders (and not
> the index files) in the evolution mail database, located at

Yes, I mean the folders and not the index files

> ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local and whose contents start:
>         $ ls -lA
>         ..#evolution.Junk.cmeta        .jango.ibex.index.data
>         ..#evolution.Trash.cmeta       .jfour/
>         ..cmeta                        .jfour.cmeta
>         ..maildir++                    .jfour.ibex.index
>         .Drafts/                       .jfour.ibex.index.data
>         .Drafts.cmeta                  .joer/
>         .Outbox/                       .joer.cmeta
>         .Outbox.cmeta                  .joyce/
>         <...>
> and not $MAIL, i.e. /var/spool/mail/jonrysh, where mail arrives on the
> system (via fetchmail and local sendmail).  

I don't mean $MAIL.


> Please excuse me for double checking; evolution has archived 218,886
> messages in 132 folders, and I want to avoid trouble if possible.

I am a friend of double checking. :)

p at rick


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