Greetings, A few day ago I made a very stupid mistake which caused complete loss of all my emails, history and all.
My ISP offers only POP3 access, but KMail has a poor record with that so I have a mail server here which fetches mail every five minutes and uses postfix and dovecot to serve it via IMAP4 to my desktop machine. The server also runs a cron job every minute to rsync my user's .maildir to /mnt/mailbu. I have accounts on both machines with the same name.) Thus I have a complete record of all emails ever sent or received. Now the hard part. I copied the mailbu back onto .maildir, then started KMail, which shows a paltry 230 messages. I'm therefore left with importing from mailbu. My questions: will that result in all mails being stored on the desktop machine, and if so will I be able to re-export them to my IMAP server? Or perhaps it's time to simplify the whole setup and keep the whole email operation on the desktop machine. I had a similar problem a few years ago, but that time I was able just to copy mailbu to .maildir with no loss of mails; just much deleting of old ones. -- Regards, Peter.
