Moving old emails to Gmail

[Plutocrat]

Wouldn't

doveadm user myaddress at domain.com

tell you the mail directory?


On 06/11/2021 11.10, Rob Campbell wrote:
> I have a backup of mail messages I have from back when i was in school using pine and I want to have them imported to my Gmail.  So I set up dovecot and my Gmail can access it just fine but it can't find anything except my inbox (which I can't even find).  I've moved my mail directory and I can view the emails using alpine but I cannot view my inbox using alpine.  Also, although Gmail can get my new test messages, it can't find the messages in ~/mail where I am viewing them with alpine.  How do I make it so Gmail can pull from ~/mail or ~/Maildir because I also converted the messages in ~/mail to ~/Maildir format but although I've tried
> mail_location = mbox:~/mail
> mail_location = mbox:~/Maildir
> mail_location = maildir:~/mail
> and
> mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
> 
> None of this worked but mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir is the only one that will at least allow me to get test messages in my inbox which Gmail can then pull.
> 
> How do I resolve these issues?
> 
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