Am 17.10.2012 20:21, schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer: > On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 13:12 -0500, /dev/rob0 wrote: >>> Well as I've mentioned... on looses the info in the From_ lines >>> (that is the RCPT TO address and the date of arrival) because >>> Evolution does not correctly migrated them (actually I'm not sure >>> whether IMAP would allow that). >> Perhaps you mean the "^From " mbox delimiter line. > Yes I meant them (the _ should have denoted the space) > > >> You do not need >> mbox delimiters in maildir files. > I know.. > > >> Did you mention whether or not >> you're using maildir? > The reason is mainly that I have gazillions of mail in a ~ 60 GB > archive... even with an fs optimised for small files I'd loose far too > much space per mail than I want to afford. > > Also, AFAIK full text search becomes much solver in maildir (as you need > to open/close endless files). On the longterm view I want to have a look > into things like dbmail/archiveopteryx... for the giant local archive... > and keep dovecot "only" as the internet mail server. > > Ideally dovecot would have such an SQL backend...or incorporate that > part from Archiveopteryx. > > > Cheers, > Chris. >
this may help too http://www.stchman.com/export_evolution.html http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-export-your-mails-from-evolution-to-thunderbird.html http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1760469 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1870445 http://jaisejames.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/to-activate-maildir-in-thunderbird/ http://realtechtalk.com/ThunderbirdMBOX_to_IMAPMaildir_migration_done_easy_with_mb2md-1134-articles -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer sys4 AG Franziskanerstraße 15 Telefon +49 89 3090 4664 81669 München Telefax +49 89 3090 4666 Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Axel von der Ohe, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Joerg Heidrich
