[ale] POP-to-IMAP (dovecot) conversion

[jdonline at gmail.com (J. D.)]

On 6/30/06, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
>
> An easy way to do this is to use thunderbird itself.
>
> Create the new imap account and leave the old pop alone except to turn
> off the auto checking for new messages. Create new folders to mirror the
> old structure. Now drag the old folders content from the pop account to
> the new imap folders. <ctl>-A to select all and drag-n-drop _or_
> copy-n-paste. Now the old mail will be on the server instead of the
> client.




Thanks James. That is probably the best way to go. I did some more research
and there are some imap migration tools but they seem a bit cumbersome.

Thanks again,
J. D.
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