[7] in IMAP Delivery
MH Migration
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura Baldwin)
Wed May 31 13:04:26 2000
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Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 13:04:22 -0400
From: Laura Baldwin <boojum@MIT.EDU>
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Okay, I've spent this morning attempting to migrate to Netscape. Once
I've actually succeeded, I'll try and turn these into something more
like stock answers.
1) The packmf programs worked okay, though the advice doesn't touch on
the fact that these folders are local, while IMAP folders are on the
server, and thus moving/copying needs to be done.
2) Left-click drag is copy, not move. This is inconvenient for moving
said folders from local to server (this is probably a netscape-ism, but
it's not standard GUI, so should be mentioned)
3) When I tried to copy folders of messages to the IMAP server, if any
message in the folder had a bad header, the entire folder copy would
fail. Unfortunately, it doesn't tell you which message is bad, and
these messages do display okay as local messages.
4) Trying to refile messages from local folders into IMAP folders has
resulted in several folders being duplicated. They have the same name,
but one of each pair has a little "user folder" (Oliver tells me that's
what it is), like a folder icon with a small triangular
(radiation-symbol-like) user in the top left of the folder. Note that
when copying folders up, the folders automatically started with this
sort of icon; the standard-folder icon ones appeared the next time I
started Messenger. All the other folders, however (the ones without
duplicates) are standard-folder icons.
5) Most annoying: I am currently unable to see *any* messages in my
top-level Inbox. Clicking on "Get Msg" causes that icon to grey out
indefinitely. Running "from" does indicate that the messages are
waiting for me on the server. I can see messages in subfolders, so
authentication is working okay. This started happening after I refiled
the contents of my old mh inbox to my IMAP inbox (about 350 messages).
6) Deleting a folder on local mail is easy. Deleting it from the IMAP
side is hard, because netscape gives an error that says you're viewing
the messages, please close them first. It does take a while to figure
out how to keep messenger from displaying the message (options under
View).
-Laura
