maildirs, dovecot, mail client help

Fri Nov 3 20:57:10 UTC 2006

See later emails Wade.

On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 06:54 -0700, wade at wadesmart.com wrote:

> 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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