[Discuss] Migrating hundreds of mbox files to an IMAP server?
Kent Borg
kentborg at borg.org
Mon Jun 2 10:32:30 EDT 2025
On 6/2/25 6:50 AM, Rich Pieri wrote:
> The most consistent and reliable, albeit slow, method is to connect
> your email client to both servers/backends and copy messages. You might
> need to chunk up the copies depending on how much mail you're trying to
> queue up.
I've tried copying a big offline Thunderbird mailbox to a live Dovecot
server, and it worked for the first 11,880 messages, but now won't do
any more. I know Dovecot can handle more because this came from an
earlier instance of Dovecot.
Just one of the reasons why I think I need to replace Dovecot, but for
the little detail of not knowing of any IMAP servers that are
necessarily better.
-kb
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