Re: [Dovecot] backing up emails

2010-06-29 Thread Angelo Chen
Hi Noel, I use exim4 and it delivers right into ~/.Maildir, so I assume /home contains all the emails, right? why we need to back up /etc and /var/mail? Thanks, Angelo > > >> auth default: >> passdb: >>driver: pam >> userdb: >>driver: passwd >> > > You're using system accounts

Re: [Dovecot] backing up emails

2010-06-27 Thread Angelo Chen
are storing the email! > > Do you know where is it ? > > > post the output of > > # dovecot -n > > []'sf.rique > > > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Angelo Chen wrote: > hi, > > i have a ubuntu server running Dovecot imap, how to backu

[Dovecot] backing up emails

2010-06-26 Thread Angelo Chen
hi, i have a ubuntu server running Dovecot imap, how to backup everybody's email? rsync /home is enough? Thanks, Angelo

Re: [Dovecot] importing outlook express messages to dovecot imap server

2010-06-25 Thread Angelo Chen
hi, i just tried 3.x, it looks like i can't drag and drop sub folders, and one problem is, imap folders are on top, and local folders(imported from outlook) are below, and it has more than 300, drag and drop toward imap folders on top is very difficult. On Jun 26, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Stan Hoeppn

[Dovecot] imap without smtp

2010-06-25 Thread Angelo Chen
hi, possible to setup a imap server without smtp? just want to store some old emails. Angelo

Re: [Dovecot] importing outlook express messages to dovecot imap server

2010-06-24 Thread Angelo Chen
Hi, Nice approach, but the it's Thunderbird, what I have is outlook Express. Angelo On Jun 25, 2010, at 2:02 PM, Patrick Nagel wrote: > 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 on

Re: [Dovecot] importing outlook express messages to dovecot imap server

2010-06-24 Thread Angelo Chen
Hi Sitan, 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? Thanks, On Jun 25, 2010, at 11:21 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >

[Dovecot] importing outlook express messages to dovecot imap server

2010-06-24 Thread Angelo Chen
Hi, I have a local Dovecot 1.1.4 running. I have a big number of outlook express messages that I like to put into Maildir so that I can use Dovecot's imap to access. I can convert them into mbox format. any available means for me to import outlook express/mbox messages into Maildir/Dovecot? com