Re: [Evolution] Drag folder to IMAP safe?

[Eric Lambart <ximian nomeaning net>]

That's how I migrated from POP/mbox to IMAP, all via Evolution: 
creating new folders on the new server, marking all messages in the old
folder, and dragging them (if you have any trouble with dragging, you
could also mark them all, right-click and select "Copy to folder").

I'm using Courier IMAP for various reasons, not the least of which is
the fact that I recalled seeing lots of problems between Cyrus and
Evolution long ago (pre-1.0 version).  Maybe someone else who uses Cyrus
can comment on how it works with Evo these days.  I've not heard
anything in a long time, so it probably works fine.

But as far as your methodology goes, it worked for me.  The only issue
with my system was that when I checked my mail through a web client, all
the messages showed a the time and date that they were copied to the new
server, not the original message timestamp.  I wrote a script to fix
those, but in any case I'm sure that's a Courier-specific problem.

Good luck!
Eric

On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 18:27, Ross Boylan wrote:
> I'm switching systems, and currently running evolution 1.2.4 on Solaris
> 2.8.  My mail is in local stores in evolution's own format.
>
> I'm migrating to an IMAP server.  With a tree view of folders on the
> left pane, I see I can drag the folders around.  If I drag my local
> folders into the IMAP folder, will this work?  "Work" has two parts:
> 1) create a new folder
> 2) copy the email into it.
>
> I'd prefer to copy without deleting the original mail, and I'm not sure
> how to do that either.  When I drag individual mail between folders, it
> gets deleted from the source folder.
>
> I gather from this list that IMAP support is bit iffy, and I don't even
> know if the folder dragging is supposed to work.  I'd appreciate any
> advice.
>
> Thanks.
>
> P.S. For evolution on the new system I'd use Debian's 1.4.3 version. 
> But I am hesitant to given the cautions about IMAP.  Any advice on
> that?  The IMAP server is Cyrus 2.1, running locally.
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