Gabriel Ramirez wrote:
> I want to off-load some email folders containing old email,
> eg In-05, Out-05, etc, perhaps to a directory ~/Archive/ .
>
> a) What is the best way to do this?
> Would simply mv-ing ~/Maildir/.In-05 to ~/Archive/ confuse dovecot?
I have dovecot with with mailboxes in mbox format and when I need to
move one I do the following
service dovecot stop
mv ~/Mail/srcdir/mymailbox ~/Mail/destdir/.
cd ~/Mail/srcdir/.imap
rm -rf mymailbox/
the last two steps is to delete the indexes maintainned by dovecot at
the old location of mymailbox
Thanks for your response.
I take it you are basically moving the appropriate folder
and deleting the corresponding index files?
(In my case the indexes seem to be in the folder .In-05 etc;
I don't have a file .imap as far as I can see.)
vim ~/Mail/.subscriptions and change the srcdir to the destdir where
apropiate
I have a file ~/Maildir/subscriptions (no dot).
I'm not entirely clear what this contains,
but it does seem that it is probably what I need,
so I'll google to see exactly what it does.
(I didn't see any mention of it in the KMail manual.)
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