how to import mails into thunderbird from maildir format

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Vivek Khurana picture Vivek Khurana · Jan 24, 2011 · Viewed 19.8k times · Source

I have a local imap server which used to pull mails from external mail server and distribute mails locally. This server is now used by a sngle user, as other users are comfortable using the webbased gmail hosted account. I want to close this local mail server but the given user has older emails in the mailserver. Is there a I can import all the emails from the IMAP server to user's local thunderbird installation ? My purpose is to close down the IMAP server yet allow the user to have access to older emails. Any solution ?

Answer

sarnold picture sarnold · Jan 24, 2011

Head to their workstation, turn on the 'save local copies' option (whatever it might be called...), slurp all the messages down, and then immediately turn off your imapd to be done with it.

Another option that friends have used is to move the entire maildir pile to his machine, install dovecot on it to serve the maildir, and aim his client to the local dovecot install.

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