On 31 Jul 23:03, Ross Boylan wrote: > I'm just switching to IMAP, so I'll toss in a few observations. > > I decided to try Cyrus, mostly because it seemed mention more often > than others on the exim lists, and it was mentioned as integrating > very easily with exim. I've found that to be the case. [snip] > I also have old local mail I'd like to migrate, and have heard that I > must manually create the folders before dragging the contents over > (this is with evolution). Somewhere someone must have written some > scripts to do this, but for me it's not worth the effort to hunt them > down. Someone in this thread referred to the IMAP standard as being > an obstacle to creating folders, but I don't think so. You can create > folders in IMAP; the only problem is automating it. There's the script "mboxtocyrus" in /usr/share/doc/cyrus21-doc/examples which reads a mbox file and copies the messages a folder of your choice on the Cyrus server. You still have to create the necessary folder on the server (otherwise it will end up in your INBOX) but it only a shell script using formail and cyrdeliver so you can alter it easily if needed. -- .''`. Jason Chambers <chambersj@thingy.org.uk> : :' : Registered Linux user #271693 `. `'` `- Debian GNU/Linux - The Universal Operating System
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