[TriLUG] IMAP - Nested folders

[David McDowell]

hmmm, sorry for another post... worse... that relates Mom's computer
skills against 1500 users... :p  OY!

On 12/9/05, David McDowell <turnpike420 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think my situation is worse... Outlook Express 5 on Apple OS 9 using
> POP3S for my Mom's old computer, now she has a new iMac G5 and is
> using Mail to connect to my IMAPS on (dovecot on CentOS 4.2).  From
> the old OE, I have to create each folder through the IMAPS connection
> to match her POP3 folder, then move the messages for that folder, then
> repeat.  It does NOT allow me to drag multiple folders from her local
> messages into the IMAP location so i can do this all in one swoop.
> And let me tell you... Mom has about 100 mail folders!!!!!  ARG!!  So
> far I've done 15 of them manually.  *sigh*  I can't even move the
> messages from OE to Thunderbird b/c Thunderbird isn't supported on OS
> 9.
>
> Originally, I had Mom on POP3S so I wouldn't have to be responsible
> for backing up her email.  Well, boy, what a mistake.  I would have
> rather been doing that all this time than having to move her from
> POP3S on OS 9, OE 5 to IMAPS so her new client Mail on OS X will have
> all her old emails.
>
> *cries*  If anyone can think of a better way, I'm all ears!
>
> David McD
>
>
>
> On 12/9/05, Paul G. Szabady <Paul at thyservice.com> wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > At work we have a desire to move all users from .pst files on the desktop
> > to a central IMAP server.  I have set up a test (WU) IMAP server on
> > RHEL3-U6 for this project.  I'm able to create folders (a.k.a. files),
> > move email from exchange and .pst files to my imap folder(s), but the
> > standard email clients we use (Outlook on PCs and soon to be Entourage on
> > OS X) do not have the ability to create folders as directories, which of
> > course will allow for additional nested folders.
> >
> > On the other hand, I can log into the imap server and create as many
> > directories and sub directories as I want (probably a limit somewhere, but
> > I haven't reached it).  I can then use Outlook to subscribe to these
> > folders and I'm off and running.  Unfortunately, very few of our 1500+
> > users will want to do this, even if they knew how to do it.
> >
> > Ideally, we'd like the user to be able to drag an individual email or an
> > entire folder hierarchy from either the exchange server or the local .pst
> > file(s) to the IMAP server.
> >
> > Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?  Maybe a different IMAP server
> > would act differently?
> >
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> > Paul
> > @ Thy Service
> >
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