maildirs, dovecot, mail client help

Fri Nov 3 13:54:20 UTC 2006

11032006 2746 GMT-6

Ok. I removed the conversion directory.
I started, stopped, restarted Evolution so it would see a clean
dirctory.
Im not understanding how to copy a folder with Evolution.

Off list Rus sent me a picture of what he is talking about but I guess I
still dont understand.

On the Evolution toolbar there is a menu item: Folder. Under that there
is Copy Folder To...
I dont have that option available to me I guess because Evolution cant
see that folder.
How do I get evolution to "do" that?

wade

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: maildirs, dovecot, mail client help
> From: ruscook <ruscook_oz at yahoo.com.au>
> Date: Fri, November 03, 2006 3:24 am
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
>        Hi Wade,
>  as I said before I would copy the folders from your local mail account to the IMAP account in your mail client that has access to these messages (evolution?) I don't like conversion programs, because there's a lot that can go wrong and you're not actually using the IMAP daemon to store the messages with conversion tool, but you are if you use your mail client.
>
>
>  On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 19:29 -0700, wade at wadesmart.com wrote:
>  > -------- Original Message --------
>  > Subject: Re: maildirs, dovecot, mail client help
>  > From: "Todd Slater" <dontodd at gmail.com>
>  > Date: Thu, November 02, 2006 8:36 am
>  > To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
>  > <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>  >
>  > On 11/2/06, wade at wadesmart.com <wade at wadesmart.com> wrote:
>  > > 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.
>  >
>  > You're using Dovecot because you want to access your mail from other machines?
>  >
>  > First thing I'd worry about is getting Evolution to see the converted
>  > mails. You added a new account, chose local maildirs as the type, and
>  > pointed it to the top level of your maildirs? On my system I used
>  > /home/todd/Mail, on others I've use /home/me/Maildir, you can use
>  > whatever you want, but you need to point Evolution to that top-level
>  > directory.
>  >
>  > Once that "account" is set up, go ahead and do a Send/Receive in
>  > Evolution so it can "find" those existing mails.
>  >
>  > Let's see if that works first.
>  >
>  > Todd
>  >
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>  11022006 1902 GMT-6
>
>  Its taken all day to get back online. My account was locked this morning
>  for having too much mail on my account.
>
>  I have just read all the replies to my questions.
>
>  I can take a single email message that was created by mb2md conversion
>  and put it in the directory that dovecot sees and it will read that
>  message.
>
>  Since this morning I have:
>   Restarted my computer
>   Read dovecot and changed the default_mail_env = maildir:%h/Maildir.
>
>  The only thing that I think is questionable is, some of the messages are
>  type email message and some are type plain text. Its odd.
>
>  Now, looking at these files:
>  .Inbox
>  .Inbox_lock
>  .Inbox_sbd
>  .Inbox_sbd.Later
>  .Inbox_sbd.Waiting
>  .Inbox_sbd.Waiting_sbd
>
>  under each one there are these files:
>   dovecot.index
>   dovecot.index.cache
>   dovecot.index.log
>   dovecot-uidlist
>
>  Actually, under almost every folder these four files are present now.
>
>  In my .Inbox there are 31031 messages in the /cur folder. Some are plain
>  text document, some are email message, and some are unknown.
>
>  I restarted Evolution abour 1500 and It now sees all my folers. Its odd
>  what it sees.
>  It sees each folder but some are subfolders of parent folders and some
>  now are not subfolders, though they were.
>
>  Wade
>
>
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