That's only going to work if your source folders and IMAP server use the
same mail storage format.

Eric

On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 12:00, James Lloyd wrote:
> I accomplished the same thing simply by moving the directories into my
> home directory (on the command line), and then using the Tools-Subscribe
> to folders menu to select them as part of the IMAP account.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> James
> 
> On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 08:40, Eric Lambart wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 21:25, Tom Nielsen wrote:
> > > I just signed on to this group so forgive me if this has been asked
> > > millions of times before.
> > > 
> > > I just launched an IMAP server for my office. I'm the only on running
> > > Linux and everyone else is running W2k...long story. My issue is that
> > > I am in sales and have a ton of local folders for customers. I'd like
> > > to get them on the IMAP server, but in order to do that I have to
> > > first create a folder on the server then copy the files over to the
> > > folder. On Outlook, I would just drag and drop the folders. 
> > 
> > In Evolution, you should be able to create the IMAP folders, then mark
> > all messages in the old folder and drag them to the new folder (or
> > right-click and select "Copy to folder/Move to folder").  You just can't
> > drag the whole folder yet.
> > 
> > I believe dragging-and-dropping MOVEs the messages (deletes them from
> > the old location).  If you hold down Ctrl or Shift it will only copy. 
> > In any case, the moved old messages won't really be gone, just marked
> > for deletion (and you can undelete them).
> > 
> > Eric
> > 
> > 
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