Message management question

[Rob Siemborski]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Denis V. Suhanov wrote:

> I wonder, is there any way to put my mail archive into a new Cyrus
> account? I have quite a few messages I've received on my old pop
> account. They are stored on my client locally but I can export them
> pretty much to any known message format. In fact, I can even use
> drag-and-drop features of the client program to move the messages into
> an IMAP account.
>
> I am just not sure whether it is going to be OK and what would be the
> safest way to have it done. Will I have to perform some additional steps
> to update the account databases? What is the "right" way to insert
> existing messages into user's account and transfer messages among accounts?

Using the IMAP protocol is definately the recommended way.  If your client
will let you use drag-and-drop, go ahead and do that.

-Rob

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