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From: beet on 9 Feb 2010 13:44
A new user: my pine has been set to download all emails from server to
the local folder mbox and delete all on the server. Is there anyway
that I can copy emails in local folder back to the server? Thanks a
lot.

Beet
From: Kaz Kylheku on 9 Feb 2010 22:08
On 2010-02-10, Michael Vilain <vilain(a)NOspamcop.net> wrote:
> In article
><668162a7-5b76-4e0d-892b-5758111af938(a)s25g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
> beet <whhggg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> A new user: my pine has been set to download all emails from server to
>> the local folder mbox and delete all on the server. Is there anyway
>> that I can copy emails in local folder back to the server? Thanks a
>> lot.
>>
>> Beet
>
> Nope. You can copy the mbox to the directory on the server with ftp but

The messages may still be on the server (marked deleted but not
expunged). Of course you need an IMAP4 client that can show you
deleted messages so you can can undelete them, and propagate
the flags to the server.

> putting the emails back on the server isn't possible.

I don't think this is a limitation of IMAP4; maybe only of Pine.
The protocol can be used to re-create the messages in
that folder (APPEND command). It doesn't look like their sequence can be
preserved though.

It would be astonishing if there didn't exist a utility for
taking messages in mbox format and uploading them to an IMAP server.

Doing a Google for "IMAP4 mbox upload", one of the first
hits takes us to.

http://imap-upload.sourceforge.net

``IMAP Upload is a tool for uploading a local mbox file to
IMAP4 server''.
From: Bill Marcum on 9 Feb 2010 13:57
On 2010-02-09, beet <whhggg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> A new user: my pine has been set to download all emails from server to
> the local folder mbox and delete all on the server. Is there anyway
> that I can copy emails in local folder back to the server? Thanks a
> lot.
>
> Beet

You could try saving to the folder '!' or forward the mails to yourself.
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