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I am setting up Wanderlust, and have an older "Maildir" folder created by Offlineimap. Am wondering how I can import these emails in Wanderlust and/or combine this folder with my new WL folder?

Can I just move the files in each subdir?

Drew
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Tomas By
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  • Wanderlust supports IMAP and Maildir, but they are in different folders on the computer. You can set up your `.folders` file to have both. I do this for 3 things: (1) my on-line IMAP folders, (2) my backup to the hard drive created with offlineimap, and (3) the duplicate of what is inside the cyberspace IMAP folders on the shared server that I sync to my hard drive with rsync. Please clarify what is meant by *combine* and *import* as it relates to this question. – lawlist Oct 24 '17 at 22:27
  • In addition to customizing the `.folders` configuration file to point to your `Maildir` folders, see also the variable `elmo-maildir-folder-path`. For example, I set this path to a location of my choosing, and then set up additional subfolders within that main directory. My subfolders include, but are not limited to: my `offlineimap` kitten caboodle, my `rsync`-ed IMAP folders from the shared server in cyberspace, a special folder where I can manually put any email that floats my boat, etc ... – lawlist Oct 25 '17 at 01:24
  • Clarify combine & import: currently I have (among other things) "old" emails in a Maildir folder on my hard drive, and "new" emails in another WL Maildir folder also on my hard drive. I want to do an operation so that I have one single WL Maildir folder containing all those emails. – Tomas By Oct 25 '17 at 12:22
  • But is it better to change so that `.folders` contain both? – Tomas By Oct 25 '17 at 12:24
  • `Maildir` stuff is just files and folders on the hard drive. You can manually add/remove emails from one location to the other. If you want to play with marking and moving emails within Wanderlust, have a look at the function `wl-summary-refile` -- there may be some others. You can mark a region of emails and then act upon them in bulk. – lawlist Oct 25 '17 at 16:56
  • Ok, thanks. I thought maybe there might be a risk that the same filenames could occur in both folders. – Tomas By Oct 25 '17 at 17:41

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First, add your folder to Wanderlust: in the Folders buffer, say:

m a .~/path/to/folder

Then switch to the folder, and mark the whole summary buffer:

M-< C-SPC M->

Mark all the messages for copying into the destination folder:

r O %INBOX

and execute the copy:

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