On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 01:21:14AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Hi.
[..] > First thing I tried was to simply copy mail within Evolution (i.e. > dragging&dropping it from the local folders to the IMAP folders from > dovecot). This seems to be the smartest idea. > - that preserves the status from Evolution, but doesn't restore that > from Thunderbird Why not use TB to copy the emails from your 'TB mboxes' to Dovecot? This way I moved around 25 GiB of emails from >> 50 mbox files, created with TB 3.6 way down to some 0.x beta, to Dovecot -- without any issues I could recall. [..] > - neither does it remove the Thunderbird or the X-Evolution-Source > headers If they bug you remove them with sed or awk or perl or python or ... Dennis [..]