maildirs, dovecot, mail client help

[wade at wadesmart.com]

11022006 0809 GMT-6

Im in a massive crunch here.

I have changed all my existing email from mbox to maildirs. I have
installed fetchmail, postfix, dovecot on my system. I finally got
dovecot to see the right folder where my mail is stored, which is in
/home/wadesmart/Maildir. I am downloading email from gmail and my
hosted email accts. I have only played with my gmail as there is little
there to download so its good for testing. When I start evolution it
sees those 9 gmails I have but, it doesnt see any of the converted
emails.

When I was on mbox I would download my emails and then filter them into
folders and subfolders for storage. When I ran mb2md I ended up with
all my folders and subfolders but it looks a mess to me.

For example, under the folder .Business I have /new /cur /tmp and then I
have .Business_sbd.Beryl I have my 127 emails there.


total 456
drwx------ 104 wadesmart wadesmart  4096 2006-11-01 18:57 .
drwxr-xr-x  35 wadesmart wadesmart  4096 2006-11-01 19:57 ..
drwx------   5 wadesmart wadesmart  4096 2006-10-31 13:37 .Business
drwx------   5 wadesmart wadesmart  4096 2006-10-31 13:37 .Business_sbd
drwx------   5 wadesmart wadesmart  4096 2006-10-31 13:38
.Business_sbd.Awarenes s Life
drwx------   5 wadesmart wadesmart  4096 2006-10-31 13:38
.Business_sbd.Beryl
drwx------   5 wadesmart wadesmart  4096 2006-10-31 13:38
.Business_sbd.Currency
drwx------   5 wadesmart wadesmart  4096 2006-10-31 13:38
.Business_sbd.Drafts
drwx------   5 wadesmart wadesmart  4096 2006-10-31 13:38
.Business_sbd.Early To  Rise



Im thinking about taking all my email out of their folders and putting
them all under one folder. With my old mbox format, as mail would come
in I had it filtered to its own folder, which may or may not be a
sub-folder of a parent folder. I like doing that. But this imap thing
is not throwing me for a loop.

If I pulled all my mail from these folders and put it all in say the
/new folder, I would have to create filters from that point forward,
but do you think that would be a good thing to do? Obviously a lot of
work creating new filters for that for me though.

I have 6000 emails backed up on my server now - and thats after deleting
things that I can delete daily. Im in a rush now to get this email I
have in its right location and that email off the server.

Wade