On 02/01/2011 07:01 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I keep my email on a CentOS server, in ~/Maildir/ .
I run dovecot/IMAP on the server,
so that I can read the email on various Fedora laptops.
I want to off-load some email folders containing old email,
eg In-05, Out-05, etc, perhaps to a directory ~/Archive/ .
a) What is the best way to do this?
Would simply mv-ing ~/Maildir/.In-05 to ~/Archive/ confuse dovecot?
I have dovecot with with mailboxes in mbox format and when I need to
move one I do the following
service dovecot stop
mv ~/Mail/srcdir/mymailbox ~/Mail/destdir/.
cd ~/Mail/srcdir/.imap
rm -rf mymailbox/
the last two steps is to delete the indexes maintainned by dovecot at
the old location of mymailbox
if the dir ~/Mail/destdir/.imap don't exists create it
vim ~/Mail/.subscriptions and change the srcdir to the destdir where
apropiate
service dovecot start
maybe you can make a test maildir mailbox and test moving it
b) If I then want to read the old email in ~/Archive/
how can I do this with KMail?
I don't use kmail but I think which it will read mailboxes from the
.subscriptions file
Gabriel