[Evolution-users] convert from POPj to IMAP

[Reid Vail]

Looking more closely at this, we have several issues to deal with:

In the existing POP-mail environment, the client-side (Evolution) is out 
of sync with the server-side Webmail.  The Evolution side is current and 
is what the user has worked with, and it doesn't match the web side. 
It's 80%-90% synced.

But in IMAP (as I understand it), even though client and server sync 
continuously, when IMAP is initiated, the service starts (or sees its 
"source") as the server side. is that right? My question is, do we need 
to clean up the existing server-side / client-side mismatch manually, or 
is there another way?

Thanks

Reid

On 2/10/26 5:56 PM, Pete Biggs wrote:
>> Evolution runs fine but this runs POP mail protocol and we want to
>> change to IMAP since there are multiple platforms access this mail
>> account.  Any transition steps you can share would be really helpful.
>> If there's published info feel free to point me in that direction.
>>
> There *should* be no problems - if you (can) access your mail via the
> web, the IMAP view of the mail should be very similar.
>
> Now, I say *should* be no problems, but you should approach it with an
> abundance of caution: primarily make sure you have a good backup of
> Evolution. First create a new IMAP account within Evolution that
> points to the mail server (the details should be on the support pages)
> - you should fairly quickly see if it works. Then turn off your POP
> account in Evolution. If you need messages that have been downloaded
> by POP and no longer exist on the server, then just copy them into the
> IMAP account in Evolution. (Make sure you turn off the POP account
> first, otherwise it will just re-download them and you'll end up with
> duplicate messages - turning off the POP account will not remove the
> messages that have already been downloaded.)
>
> P.
>