Re: Problems with filters (AGAIN!)

"Martin (KDE)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.users.pim
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Freitag, 23. Dezember 2011, 21:51:52 schrieb Martin:
> Am Freitag, 23. Dezember 2011, 12:55:44 schrieb Jerome Yuzyk:
> > On Friday, December 23, 2011 11:52:08 AM "Martin (KDE)"
> > <[email protected]>> 
> > wrote:
> > > I use cyrus mail server with build in sieve filter. You can use
> > > courier
> > > as well with either procmail or couriers maildrop filter. And a
> > > third
> > > option is dovecot with build-in sieve filter.
> > 
> > I think you mentioned this before and I noted it because I don't want to
> > go through KMail2 problems like others. I am wondering how I would
> > migrate from my KMail setup to Cyrus. Can I just:
> > 
> > - tell KMail to quit picking up my POP mail and stop KMail
> > - setup Cyrus
> > 
> >   . point it at my ~/Mail (all maildir)
> >   . add my KMail filters
> > 
> > - start KMail and reconfigure it to use my new Cyrus
> 
> Please take some time for migration. Read the basic documentation for cyrus
> or may be even better for you: dovecot. Dovecot is easier to set up (I use
> cyrus because at the time I started it was the only one with the function I
> needed). Dovecot is as good/fast as cyrus (may be even better).
> 
> You can not point the imap server to your local mail folder. Only one
> process should access it. So best practice is:
> - Setup your local imap server (according to the documentation)
> - configure kmail1 to use the new imap server (parallel to your old storage)
> - copy all local mail to the imap server
> - setup getmail/fetchmail to retrieve your mails form different provider
> - use any mail client you want and point it to use your local imap server

And please don't forget to use the ONLINE IMAP.

> 
> > I have a half-dozen POP accounts and other identities to migrate. Is it
> > a
> > lot of work?
> 
> Fetching mails from your pop accounts has to be done with an extra program
> like fetchmail or getmail. fetchmail/getmail or similar programs can fetch
> mails from different accounts (pop or imap) and put them either to another
> program (procmail for example or dovecots deliver program) or drop them into
> mail storage.
> 
> Please search the net for step by step instructions for this. There are
> several out there. If you want a full featured mail system I recommend a
> local install of postfix as mail transfer agent.
> 
> Please read:
> http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-April/039213.html for using getmail
> with dovecot.
> 
> To come to your last questin: It depends. If you know what you are doing it
> is not that hard (that's why I recommend reading basic documentation). You
> can start with dovecot and getmail and if this is set up you can extend
> this with postfix and ssl and ...
> 
> At first this sound very complicated, but it is worth the effort (and you
> can prove your skills).
> 
> Martin
> 
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