On Sun, 11 Jan 2015, Matt Lawrence wrote:
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015, Brandon Allbery wrote:
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 11:03 PM, Matt Lawrence <[email protected]>
wrote:
Ok. I guess my biggest concern is how to migrate my inbox. Hopefully the
Dovecot and/or the Cyrus documentation will give me some clues. Like I
said, I haven't touched a mail server configuration in many years and that
was to configure greylisting.
IMAP servers don't really support "migration" as such, because the IMAP
protocol strongly discourages it. In particular, Cyrus uses its own folder
format that should only be managed by Cyrus itself (dovecot uses Maildir).
You migrate by using a mail client to create folders and move messages into
them.
And migrating my overflowing inbox?
select a bunch of old mail (say everything > 1 year old) and tell (al)pine to
save it to a new folder (either another local mbox mail file, or a IMAP server
on a local or remote machine), then delete the messages that you copied. That
will buy you time to finish setting things up and you can then copy the
remainder.
David Lang
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