[Users] Importing kmails complete mail corpus to claws

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 23 May 2013 14:29:18 Steve Litt did opine:

> On Wed, 22 May 2013 12:48:17 -0400
> 
> Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > Greetings all;
> > 
> > I would like to be able to do this so that kmail remains intact and
> > usable until I have claws configured close enough to kmail that claws
> > can take over with no gaps in the timeline.
> 
> Hi Gene,
> 
> I can't help you with a cutover that remains parallel. The way I
> emigrated from Kmail involved a sharp cutover with a few
> dayshttp://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/201202/201202.htm of email
> downtime. I did this after months of investigating the best way of
> doing it. Here are the details:
> 
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/201202/201202.htm
> 
I haven't looked at that link yet, but the description sure sounds like 
something I can wrap my head around.

Thank you very much.

> Basically, I got Dovecot running on my desktop machine. I grab my email
> with fetchmail, which shoots each message to procmail for deposit in
> the proper Dovecot email folder.

Humm, so your dovecot, nor CM actually sorts to the folder level.  I'll be 
a while composing procmailrc rules for that as I'm on about 40 mailing 
lists, each with its own subfolder in kmail.

> So all my email is in Dovecot, *not*
> in my email client. That way, if at a later date Claws-Mail goes and
> does something stupid the way Kmail did (Akonadi, etc), then I can drop
> in any IMAP aware email client. I find it very reassuring to separate
> email creation and reading from email storage, and will never again
> store my email in an email client's format.
> 
> So my conversion required me to get my local Dovecot running, and then,
> one at a time, within kmail I copied my folders to equivalent IMAP
> folders in Dovecot. I could have copied whole folder trees, but IMHO
> you'll have less problems if you don't copy excessively big trees.
> During the conversion I could receive no email. I wanted my IMAP tree
> to exactly match my Kmail tree. My records showed I sent my last Kmail
> email at 2:35am on 2/3/2012, and sent my first Claws email at 12:48pm
> on 2/4/2012, so I was down for a day and a half.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> SteveT
> 
> 
> 
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