[Dovecot] Converting a POP3 client to IMAP

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Tue, 12 Feb 2013, Kristen J. Webb wrote:

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

you could use fetchmail to get the messages from the POP3 box and 
pass them to Dovecot deliver. So you can use Sieve filters (or not, if you 
turn Sieve off for this).

Then let the messages spool to Maildir.

Then use fdupes to find duplicates and hardlink them.

Kind regards,

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Steffen Kaiser
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