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I have a Maildir format mail store and I need to upload the whole store to an IMAP server. I can't just copy the directory and I'm a bit reluctant to set up a local IMAP server just to do the copying with imapsync.
There are quite a few tools to do all this, but none of them appear to be targetting uploading.
- Offlineimap works the other way around, IMAP server tells the client what to do and it ignores local folders in the target unless they are already present on the server
- uw-mailutil doesn't appear to understand maildir properly (on ubuntu 10.04 at least) and thus fails to transfer
- imapsync requires that both ends are IMAP servers
Any ideas?
Ressu
Posted 2010-08-26T11:12:15.777
Reputation: 133
Not a bad solution, at least it doesn't require me to install an IMAP server. But in the end, it's still a bit of legwork for oneshot type of a job. But I think i'll go with this solution for now and leave the question open for a long term solution – Ressu – 2010-08-26T11:46:45.067
If you really want something portable which you can repeat easily, just type in some Perl! :-) http://search.cpan.org/~zeroalti/Mail-Maildir-1.0.0/lib/Mail/Maildir.pm for handling Maildir and http://search.cpan.org/~conteb/IMAP-Client-0.13/lib/IMAP/Client.pm for handling the IMAP part.
– Janne Pikkarainen – 2010-08-26T11:49:34.377+1, your answer is also what I would have used. I've done this successfully several times - although from a Windows machine using MS Outlook, which supports drag-and-drop of entire subfolders (MS Outlook Express doesn't.) – Torben Gundtofte-Bruun – 2010-08-26T12:19:05.550