On 28.3.2013, at 10.51, Paul van der Vlis <p...@vandervlis.nl> wrote:
> A customer has a thin-client server with 100+ homedirs with Evolution. > They are using POP3 and maildir. Now I want to switch to IMAP. > > Can I use Dovecot on this maildirs, or does Evolution use another kind > of maildir? I'm guessing it uses Dovecot's :LAYOUT=fs directory structure. > Does Dovecot change anything in the maildirs? > > Do I loose my flags this way, like "read" ? I'm not sure, depends on if Evolution stored the flags to maildir filenames. I'm guessing it doesn't, so you'd lose flags. > Normally I am using Cyrus IMAP. What I want to do is to install Dovecot > to have access to the mail over IMAP because Dovecot can do maildir > (Cyrus cannot). Then I can use imapsync to sync everything to Cyrus. > Do you think that's a good idea? The best way in any case would be to simply configure the new IMAP account to Evolution and copy the messages there using Evolution itself.
