Conversion from mbox to Cyrus
Paul van der Vlis
paul at vandervlis.nl
Thu Mar 28 12:06:52 EDT 2013
Hi Adam,
First of all, there was a misunderstanding between me and my customer.
The mail is in mbox format, not in maildir. Sorry.
On 28-03-13 12:13, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 21:15 +0100, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
>> A customer asks me to convert an excisting installation what uses
>> Evolution, pop3 and maildir to Cyrus.
>> When I would copy the files and run reconstruct or use deliver I expect
>> to loose the flags like "read".
>
> Not necessarily, those can be explicitly applied via IMAP.
>
> I believe the imapcopy / imaputils project(s) have some maildir-to-imap
> migration tool, maybe. I remember something like that.
Imapcopy does only imap-to-imap so far I know.
> For POP - there aren't really any flags, except maybe "seen", but that
> depends on the provider.
It's about the old mail what's stored in the home-dir of the user. This
was transfered by POP.
With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.
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