Thank you to everyone who responded to my question about importing
large numbers of mbox files to an IMAP server. Here's a summary of
what I learned from you.
* Attempt 1. Rich Pieri and Ron suggested using an IMAP mail client
and dragging mail folders from one server to another. This fails
specta
Rich Pieri wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jun 2025 07:32:30 -0700
> Kent Borg wrote:
>
> > I've tried copying a big offline Thunderbird mailbox to a live
> > Dovecot server, and it worked for the first 11,880 messages, but now
> > won't do any more. I know Dovecot can handle more because this came
> > from
On Mon, 2 Jun 2025 07:32:30 -0700
Kent Borg wrote:
> I've tried copying a big offline Thunderbird mailbox to a live
> Dovecot server, and it worked for the first 11,880 messages, but now
> won't do any more. I know Dovecot can handle more because this came
> from an earlier instance of Dovecot.
On 6/2/25 6:50 AM, Rich Pieri wrote:
The most consistent and reliable, albeit slow, method is to connect
your email client to both servers/backends and copy messages. You might
need to chunk up the copies depending on how much mail you're trying to
queue up.
I've tried copying a big offline Thu
On Sun, 1 Jun 2025 22:36:06 +
"dbarr...@blazemonger.com" wrote:
> What's the best way to import 600 mbox files to an IMAP server?
The most consistent and reliable, albeit slow, method is to connect
your email client to both servers/backends and copy messages. You might
need to chunk up the co
Daniel Barrett wrote:
> What's the best way to import 600 mbox files to an IMAP server?
>
> Background: The files were created locally by Thunderbird, arranged in
> a file hierarchy. I'd like the same hierarchy to be created on the
> IMAP server. For example, the mbox file named Recipes.mbox woul
