How to do REVERSE synchronization of Thunderbird???

[Ramon F. Herrera]

Server: Linux, IMAP
Client: Windows XP, Thunderbird

I lost the disks in my Linux e-mail server. However, a lot of the
messages are still available in my Windows PC. When I tried to
synchronize, I discovered that the procedure consist on ERASING the
messages on the clients (since they are absent from the server). What
I want is those messages to be UPLOADED from the desktop PCs and
appended to the server mailbox.

Can this be done? How?

TIA,

-Ramon

[Robert Johnston]

It can indeed.

Step 1: Create a new account to access the IMAP server
Step 2: Import the old folders (With the e-mails in) into the "Local
Folders": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Importing_folders
Step 3: Copy the messages from the local folders into the new account.
This will then upload the messages to the IMAP server.

[Ramon F. Herrera]

Thanks, Robert!!

Just to be sure (and given the potential danger of unintended
erasure):

I have an account "ramon" in the Linux server, which I access from
several desktop PCs, at office and home. I will be satisfied to upload
the messages from one PC (which has most of the stuff).

As soon as I noticed the unintended deletion of PC, I had no resort
but stopping the IMAP daemon.

You said that I should create a different accout, let's call it
"mailboxrecover" (or something). Both the "ramon" account and the
"mailboxrecover" account exist in the client PC and I export the old
folders to the "Local Folders".

The problem that I see is that at this point I have to restart the
IMAP deamon, and if I am not mistaken, it will perform some massive
deletions. Probably I should only click on the "mailboxrecover"
account??

-Ramon

[Robert Johnston]

You should create a new profile, to ensure that the client doesn't touch
the "ramon" files. Then you can build a new account on the new profile,
and import the folders from the old profile. Then once you're done
importing, you remove and delete the old profile and you're done.