[Dovecot] Converting a POP3 client to IMAP

[Kristen J. Webb]

Hi Steffen,
Thank you so much for your quick reply!
I apparently missed it the first time.

I think this is close to what I need.
My only problem is that all of the
mail is currently in a Thunderbird
client (we don't leave messages on
our current POP3 server).

Could I set up each user with a migration
account, so they can drag/drop their
email to get them on the mail
server (in imap or pop3 if needed?)
and then somehow use fetchmail
to process the messages again to their
new real account (sieve & all)?

Kris

On 2/13/13 12:56 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
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> On Tue, 12 Feb 2013, Kristen J. Webb wrote:
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>> 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,
>
> - -- Steffen Kaiser
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