[Users] Importing kmails complete mail corpus to claws

[Vayu]

Steve!  I hadn't seen the link that was in your post before I sent mine.  There is so much good info on this process, it appears to address my questions more than I could have hoped.  Much gratitude.




On Thu May 23 12:12:15 PM Steve Litt wrote:
> 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
> 
> 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. 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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