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10 October 2013 » Move Email to Bluehost

Download the mail from GoDaddy

getmail is a mail retriever designed to allow you to get your mail from one or more mail accounts on various mail servers to your local machine for reading with a minimum of fuss. getmail is designed to be secure, flexible, reliable, and easy-to-use. getmail is designed to replace other mail retrievers such as fetchmail.

Configuration

Configuration file is ~/.getmail/getmails


            [retriever]
            type = SimplePOP3Retriever
            server = pop.theserver.net
            username = me@domain.com
            password = strongpassword
            
            [destination]
            type = Maildir
            path = ~/.getmail/maildir/

It was necessary to move the emails from the saved folder to the inbox, run getmail to grab them and then move them back to the saved folder.

Upload to Bluehost

Perhaps use software like this, imap-upload

Lifehacker article on importing to gmail with imap

Apparently Thunderbird can drag and drop to an imap server.

Maildir Directory Structure

Dovecot uses Maildir++ directory layout for organizing mailbox directories. This means that all the folders are directly inside ~/Maildir directory:

~/Maildir/new, ~/Maildir/cur and ~/Maildir/tmp directories contain the messages for INBOX. The tmp directory is used during delivery, new messages arrive in new and read shall be moved to cur by the clients.

~/Maildir/.folder/ is a mailbox folder

~/Maildir/.folder.subfolder/ is a subfolder of a folder (ie. “folder/subfolder”)

Most importantly this means that if your maildir folders exist in eg. ~/Maildir/folder and ~/Maildir/folder/subfolder, Dovecot won’t see them unless you rename them to Maildir++ layout. v1.1 supports them by adding :LAYOUT=fs to mail_location.


            ~/godaddy_export/cur/
            ~/godaddy_export/new/
            ~/godaddy_export/tmp/
            ~/godaddy_export/.craig/cur/
            ~/godaddy_export/.craig/new/
            ~/godaddy_export/.craig/tmp/
            ~/godaddy_export/.gcs/cur/
            ~/godaddy_export/.gcs/new/
            ~/godaddy_export/.gcs/tmp/

I could rsync to these folders on Bluehost .


            ~/godaddy_export/.craig/
            ~/godaddy_export/.gcs/


            ~/mail/coot.net/craig/.godaddy_craig/
            ~/mail/coot.net/craig/.godaddy_gcs/


            cd ~/godaddy_export/
            scp -r .gcs cootnet@coot.net:mail/coot.net/godaddy_gcs
            scp -r .craig cootnet@coot.net:mail/coot.net/craig/.godaddy_craig

Then in Roundcube the folder must be subscribed to.

11 October 2013 » Phusion Passenger and Bluehost

What is Phusion Passenger and why should I care?

Overview image. phusion_passenger_overview

Stack Overflow question on App. Servers

09 October 2013 » Webmail at Bluehost

Using Roundcube as the webmail application.

Spam Assassin is the spam utility.