On 04/15/2013 11:49 AM, Thomas Raschbacher wrote: > Hi. > > I'm going to have to import ~ 25GB of Thunderbird mails into DBMail. > what is the best way to do this? > > 1) Just add imap server and start copying over?
Probably the best. > 2) is there some script maybe? (contrib only has for maildir) The script in contrib supports more than maildir. > 3) use a thunderbird extension (like > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/) > to export to maildir and then use the script? You can try that, but this will not set meta-data on the messages like the flags (Seen, Recent, Deleted, LabelX...) > > What seems to be the best way? most important is that nothing is lost, > so the priority is on that of course. It'd be nice to not having to do > it manually (there are a lot of folders), but if the rest is considered > unreliable / someone has encountered problems with it then I guess i'd > have to do that.. -- ________________________________________________________________ Paul J Stevens pjstevns @ gmail, twitter, skype, linkedin * Premium Hosting Services and Web Application Consultancy * www.nfg.nl/[email protected]/+31.85.877.99.97 ________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.fastxs.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
