On Thursday 30 August 2007, Marc Joliet wrote: > Hi list, > > So, I have a small issue: I have come to hate the glitches in > Evolution and want to try out other email clients. > > Now, the problem is, the emails are all stored locally in Evolutions > directory structure, and kmailcvt hangs when importing. > > It was suggested to me by a dorm admin to set up an IMAP server and > just move all local email to that, then access it with $email_client. > I personally like this solution, though I could also set it up on the > local dorm server. > > Therefor my plan is to install an IMAP server (and whatever else I > need) and have it serve to localhost for access. One question would > be: what is the optimal way to get my email to said server. I would > think either fetchmail or an equivalent *OR* forwarding them from GMX > *OR* using a filter. Probably the first or third. > > Is any of this possible or feasible? Would there be any (noticeable) > performance implications? Does anyone have recommendations? > > Now, I'm not expecting a step-by-step tutorial, just some > recommendations and pointers towards the best way to set this up.
I use a setup like this - kmail connecting to dovecot @ localhost. I pop my mail off the various mail servers I use with net-mail/getmail, the docs are quite clear. Performance is slower than local mailboxes especially if you have lots of mail, and if you need to move 30,000 lkml mails form over her to over there, then it's gonna take a while :-) To do the migration, I simply created IMAP folders matching the local folders within kmail, then drag 'n drop them over to imap. When done, and verified as completed (i.e. by checking what's onthe filesystem...) I deleted the local folders works for me alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
