[Evolution] Re: [Evolution-hackers] Problems with mailboxes after move from sendmail to imap

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

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a list for user questions.

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> I'am using evolution 1.4.5 without problems.
>
> My IT-Operations department moved my mail accout from a sendmail based
> mailserver to an IMAP based during my vacation.

Sendmail is for *sending* only, IMAP is for *retrieving* mails (and
managing them on the server). You will need a SMTP server anyways.


> After my return I got all my mails from INBOX, but not my former mails
> from SENT folder.
>
> If I look into the folder structure of my evolution config I still have
> entries in 
>
> /home/<account>/evolution/mail/imap/<sendmail-account>/folder/Sent
>
> This folder contains about 1800 files named like 
>
> 50. and 50.0
> until
> 971. and 971.0
>
> <any-nr>.0 seems to be the mailheader
> <any-nr). seems to be the mailbody

This are cached mails only, AFAIK. As this is an IMAP account, the
actual mails are located at your IMAP server.


> The typical mbox entries 
>
> folder-metadata.xml
> local-metadata.xml
> mbox
> mbox.ibex.index
> mbox.ibex.index.data
>
> are missing!!!

Those are for *local* mails only. You will not see files like them in
your IMAP cache directories.


> Does anybody know if and when yes how I can create an "importable" mbox
> based on the files <any-nr>. <any-nr>.x  and put it in a local folder?
>
> Any idea would extremely appreciate

Seems, your admins screwed things up heavily... :-/
You need to talk to them.

...guenther


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