[Dovecot] Converting a POP3 client to IMAP

[Kristen J. Webb]

I have a dovecot 2.0 dovecot server
set up for https/imap with
spam, av, and some preliminary sieve filters
in place.

Our current email is outsourced and so we
have used POP3 to keep all email on our
systems for many years.

I have run tests to move mail to the new
imap server and that seems to work pretty well.

However, we have lots of mail going back over
a decade and used a lot of aliases that
forwarded email to many users.  I find the
moving mail multiple times using Thunderbird
results in multiple copies of the same email.

Is there a best practice for moving mail
such that we can take advantage of the
hard link feature for all those older copies
that are currently in POP3 files?

It would also be nice to be able to auto file
things.  I don't see the sieve filters being
activated when I copy mail in Thunderbird.

Many thanks in advance for any guidance.

Kris
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