Moving mail

[Geoff Shang]

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Moish wrote:

> Connect to the old mail system, download the messages to local storage, 
> connect
> to the new system using imap and then move the mail from local folders
> to remote folders.
> I've done it with Thunderbird but any decent client would do it.
> I recall that there were tools to do it on the server, but why bother?

Firstly, it's not my mail.  Second, this has a feel of clunkiness about 
it.  I'd prefer to be able to just move the data without any risk that 
some mail client is going to change the data in any way.  I suppose I can 
resort to this if there's no other option.

Geoff.