On 02/01/2011 08:12 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > 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? exactly. ls -la ~/Mail/Lists/2011 drwxr-xr-x. 3 user01 users 4096 Feb 1 00:44 . drwxr-xr-x. 16 user01 users 4096 Sep 29 14:52 .. -rw-r--r--. 1 user01 users 1427972 Feb 1 20:28 fedora-kde_S01 -rw-r--r--. 1 user01 users 918329 Feb 1 15:34 fedora-selinux -rw-r--r--. 1 user01 users 13211652 Feb 1 01:27 fedora-users_01 -rw-r--r--. 1 user01 users 255519 Feb 1 21:50 fedora-users_02 drwxr-xr-x. 13 user01 users 4096 Feb 1 00:44 .imap in .imap: ls -la ~/Mail/Lists/2011/.imap drwxr-xr-x. 13 user01 users 4096 Feb 1 00:44 . drwxr-xr-x. 3 user01 users 4096 Feb 1 00:44 .. drwxr-xr-x. 2 user01 users 4096 Feb 1 14:57 fedora-kde_S01 drwxr-xr-x. 2 user01 users 4096 Jan 29 16:50 fedora-selinux drwxr-xr-x. 2 user01 users 4096 Jan 31 19:19 fedora-users_01 drwxr-xr-x. 2 user01 users 4096 Feb 1 13:31 fedora-users_02 ls -la ~/Mail/Lists/2011/.imap/fedora-users_02 drwxr-xr-x. 2 user01 users 4096 Feb 1 13:31 . drwxr-xr-x. 13 user01 users 4096 Feb 1 00:44 .. -rw-r--r--. 1 user01 users 1632 Feb 1 21:47 dovecot.index -rw-r--r--. 1 user01 users 50176 Feb 1 21:47 dovecot.index.cache -rw-r--r--. 1 user01 users 17216 Feb 1 21:50 dovecot.index.log > (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.) the imap is a dir as shown above, if you have the dovecot.index* files in each maildir mailbox maybe dovecot don't use the .imap dirs with them > >> vim ~/Mail/.subscriptions and change the srcdir to the destdir where >> apropiate the .subscriptions file with a dot at the begining has: Lists/2011/fedora-kde_S01 Lists/2011/fedora-selinux MailPost/Mktgs Lists/2011/fedora-users_02 is only a partial list but has every mbox which I have in my email reader is listed there not all existing mbox in ~/Mail/ are shown in my email reader, some are too ancient so I don't need them in that file > > 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.) > the .subscriptions or subscriptions file is created and managed by dovecot more info well only a bit in http://wiki.dovecot.org/MissingMailboxes under subscriptions and after in migration link Gabriel _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
