Francis Galiegue wrote: > Hello everyone, > > At work, we have a middle term project (planned for this summer) to migrate > all mail to a newer server. This implies changing the authentication scheme > (this I can handle, after all _I_ will make the authentication scheme and > have prior experience with Courier IMAP) and the mailboxes --- and it's this > latter point which causes me headaches. > > The situation is as such: for now we use uw-imapd, which stores the INBOX in > the MAIL environment variable, which is setup to /var/spool/mail/$USER. For > the subdirectories, everything is stored in $HOME/mail for each user (so, for > instance, a mailbox named Test in the IMAP tree would be in an mbox file > named $HOME/mail/Test). > > I know programs to convert from mailboxes to Maildirs exist (I have even used > one at some occasion, with success). But the problem here is that the INBOX > and the subdirectories are _not_ located at the same place, so I cannot use > this tool to migrate both the INBOX and subdirectorires separately - or can > I? > > Would you have any suggestions on how I can achieve this? I'm at a loss here > and would appreciate any pointers, even if it's the RTFM kind of pointers.
I would recommend imapsync. I migrated 30.000 mailboxes from uw-imapd with it. You need to know the password of the user though. I got arround that by using a different pam module that has a master password. Rudy -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur ICT Department, Infrastructure office Groep Systemen Systems group Universiteit Gent Ghent University Krijgslaan 281, gebouw S9, 9000 Gent, Belgie www.UGent.be -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
