dovecot - Aug 2013 - Migrating from Maildir to Maildir:LAYOUT=fs

Hi
I have use dovecot together with offlineimap to download my gmail
account on a single user computer and I have only one maildir
(~/Maildir).

As I switched to Mac, I would like to use spotlight to index my mails,
which apparently does not work as they are in hidden directories
(.directories). So I would like to change to LAYOUT=fs. Is there an easy
way to migrate my email structure? I have several folders and
subfolders, but a manual solution would be fine with me as well. 

My questions: 

1) can I simply restructure the mailboxes and rename the folders / move
them into the folders where I want them after changing the configuration
of dovecot?

2) Is there an easy tool I can use for this for one mailbox which is
doing it automatically?

Thanks,

Rainer


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Rainer M. Krug

email: RMKrug<at>gmail<dot>com

Could somebody please point me in the right direction where I could get
this info, if this is not the right list?

Thanks,

Rainer


Rainer M Krug <Rainer at krugs.de> writes:
> Hi
> I have use dovecot together with offlineimap to download my gmail
> account on a single user computer and I have only one maildir
> (~/Maildir).
>
> As I switched to Mac, I would like to use spotlight to index my mails,
> which apparently does not work as they are in hidden directories
> (.directories). So I would like to change to LAYOUT=fs. Is there an easy
> way to migrate my email structure? I have several folders and
> subfolders, but a manual solution would be fine with me as well. 
>
> My questions: 
>
> 1) can I simply restructure the mailboxes and rename the folders / move
> them into the folders where I want them after changing the configuration
> of dovecot?
>
> 2) Is there an easy tool I can use for this for one mailbox which is
> doing it automatically?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rainer
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Rainer M. Krug

email: RMKrug<at>gmail<dot>com

Hello Rainer,

24.08.2013 12:42, Rainer M Krug:
> I have use dovecot together with offlineimap to download my gmail
> account on a single user computer and I have only one maildir
> (~/Maildir).
> 
> As I switched to Mac, I would like to use spotlight to index my mails,
> which apparently does not work as they are in hidden directories
> (.directories). So I would like to change to LAYOUT=fs. Is there an easy
> way to migrate my email structure? I have several folders and
> subfolders, but a manual solution would be fine with me as well. 
Wouldn't it be best for spotlight if you used "local storage" for
your
mails? In other words: Just download them from your server into your
local account. The you're done, and spoltlight will be able to index them.

Mit freundlichen Gr??en
Christian Schmidt

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On Sat, 24 Aug 2013, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> 2) Is there an easy tool I can use for this for one mailbox which is
> doing it automatically?
Check out http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Dsync , section "Converting".

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