<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.12.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> See later emails Wade. On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 06:54 -0700, wade@wadesmart.com wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> 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 <<A HREF="mailto:ruscook_oz@yahoo.com.au">ruscook_oz@yahoo.com.au</A>> > Date: Fri, November 03, 2006 3:24 am > To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" > <<A HREF="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</A>> > > 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, <A HREF="mailto:wade@wadesmart.com">wade@wadesmart.com</A> wrote: > > -------- Original Message -------- > > Subject: Re: maildirs, dovecot, mail client help > > From: "Todd Slater" <<A HREF="mailto:dontodd@gmail.com">dontodd@gmail.com</A>> > > Date: Thu, November 02, 2006 8:36 am > > To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" > > <<A HREF="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</A>> > > > > On 11/2/06, <A HREF="mailto:wade@wadesmart.com">wade@wadesmart.com</A> <<A HREF="mailto:wade@wadesmart.com">wade@wadesmart.com</A>> 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 > > > > -- > > ubuntu-users mailing list > > <A HREF="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</A> > > <A HREF="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</A> > > 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 > > </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> Kind Regards Russell ================== www.windsorcycles.com.au sales@windsorcycles.com.au ph. 02 4577 3209 bikes.no-ip.info Linux user #369094 ================== </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>