I am planning to shut down my own Dovecot server and start using the other Dovecot server I am administering together with a friend.. And I was thinking that I don't want to copy the emails I have on my server so I want to start from scratch on the other server.. But I would like to be able to look at the old emails if I need to, so was wondering if there is a way to do this without using an imap server? Can I convert my mails stored in the maildir format to mbox or is there a better way to solve my problem? Regards, BTJ -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bj?rn T Johansen btj at havleik.no ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Someone wrote: "I understand that if you play a Windows CD backwards you hear strange Satanic messages" To which someone replied: "It's even worse than that; play it forwards and it installs Windows" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Am 28.11.2012 13:12, schrieb Bj?rn T Johansen:> I am planning to shut down my own Dovecot server and start using the other Dovecot server I am administering together with a friend.. > > And I was thinking that I don't want to copy the emails I have on my server so I want to start from scratch on the other server.. > But I would like to be able to look at the old emails if I need to, so was wondering if there is a way to do this without using an imap server? > Can I convert my mails stored in the maildir format to mbox or is there a better way to solve my problem?why not simply drag&drop them to thunderbird or whatever MUA you are using? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 261 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20121128/7adf7ed6/attachment-0004.bin>
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:22:22 +0100 Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:> > > Am 28.11.2012 13:12, schrieb Bj?rn T Johansen: > > I am planning to shut down my own Dovecot server and start using the other Dovecot server I am administering together with a friend.. > > > > And I was thinking that I don't want to copy the emails I have on my server so I want to start from scratch on the other server.. > > But I would like to be able to look at the old emails if I need to, so was wondering if there is a way to do this without using an imap server? > > Can I convert my mails stored in the maildir format to mbox or is there a better way to solve my problem? > > why not simply drag&drop them to thunderbird or whatever MUA > you are using? >Well, I am using Claws Mail but you are thinking about make my emails available in offline modus? Guess that might be one way to go but I was just trying to figure out my options as I have never done this before... :) BTJ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Am 28.11.2012 13:12, schrieb Bj?rn T Johansen:> I am planning to shut down my own Dovecot server and start using the other Dovecot server I am administering together with a friend.. > > And I was thinking that I don't want to copy the emails I have on my server so I want to start from scratch on the other server.. > But I would like to be able to look at the old emails if I need to, so was wondering if there is a way to do this without using an imap server? > Can I convert my mails stored in the maildir format to mbox or is there a better way to solve my problem? > > > Regards, > > BTJ >thunderbird since vers 12 has maildir format as option there are also some import and export plugins look i.e here http://jaisejames.wordpress.com/tag/maildir-for-thunderbird/ ( sorry if pop ups ,couldnt get better site quick ) Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstra?e 15, 81669 M?nchen Sitz der Gesellschaft: M?nchen, Amtsgericht M?nchen: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Axel von der Ohe, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Joerg Heidrich
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:12:15 +0100, Bj?rn T Johansen said:> I am planning to shut down my own Dovecot server and start using the > other Dovecot server I am administering together with a friend.. > > And I was thinking that I don't want to copy the emails I have on my > server so I want to start from scratch on the other server.. But I > would like to be able to look at the old emails if I need to, so was > wondering if there is a way to do this without using an imap server? > Can I convert my mails stored in the maildir format to mbox or is > there a better way to solve my problem?I'm not sure why you want to convert to mbox, especially when there are multiple mbox versions. I'm also not sure why you don't want to copy emails. How else would they appear on the new server. I suppose you could use rsync to copy the data itself. You use Claws-Mail. If I were in your shoes, I'd bring up the empty Dovecot server and make a new Claws-Mail account for that empty server. Then in Claws-Mail I'd use the copy feature to copy whole folder trees to the new server. Once that's done, I'd reconfigure your original Dovecot so it can serve only on its local machine, and bang, you have your new server, with old emails you can look at. This is similar to the procedure I used to move my Kmail folders (over 100K messages) to Dovecot. http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/201202/201202.htm HTH, SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ * http://twitter.com/stevelitt Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance