Hi, On 2010-06-25 03:51 UTC Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Angelo Chen put forth on 6/24/2010 10:25 PM: > > I think that's one option, but it's around 10G data for the last few > > years, and more than 100 folders under outlook express, do you think > > that will be fast enough by using Outlook Express copying option to an > > imap account? > > Look at it this way: One way or another, in one format or another, you > will have to copy the data over the network from the PC to the Dovecot > server. If you use the method myself and others have recommended, once > the data is copied to the IMAP folders, you are done. > > Now, if you do it the other way, which is copying raw files over, you then > have to convert them to maildir format. It's a multi-step process. And > could be error prone. > > The first method is a single step process and is reliable.
I tried something similar (with Thunderbird) once, and it caused a lot of trouble. We only had around 1.3 GB, IIRC, but thousands of folders. Here is a blog article that I wrote after I got it done with a perl script: https://patrick-nagel.net/blog/archives/77 Patrick. -- Key ID: 0x86E346D4 http://patrick-nagel.net/key.asc Fingerprint: 7745 E1BE FA8B FBAD 76AB 2BFC C981 E686 86E3 46D4
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