On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:26:14 -0500 "Dave Nebinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I followed a virtual mail server howto in the forums, fetchmail - procmail > > - courier -imap - postfix - squirrelmail and it works perfect. > > The only question i have is, i'm gathering mail for years with sylpheed- > > claws in a maildir, it are several thousend of mails in sub dirs. > > How do i get them into the new mailserver, the server has also a .maildir > > but the filename of the emails are different. > > Once the email is delivered, it ends up in the .maildir; from that point, > it's up to the mail reader to present the messages from .maildir. thats only partially correct - in fact only correct if the client is directly accessing the maildir. it is not correct in this case. in this case the imap server has to read the maildir, not the client. the client may be in timbuctu. The client does not care about the maildir, it communicates via imap. the imap server may store the mail in an mbox (eg UW style), its own format (eg cyrus), maildir, or a database (eg dbmail), or some proprietary format (eg exchange server). however as long as the imap server understands the file names it should work. i know that courier changes filenames on the fly, adding letters onto the end of the filename to indicate various statuses. > > I would think you can drop the old messages into place without doing > anything to the names and everything should be fine... > > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [email protected] mailing list
