Yossie, when I was looking at imapsync, I ran into the same problem. What I wound up doing was, I'd transfer the uw inbox into user/INBOX, and then, I'd move the mail messages up out of the INBOX folder, do a reconstruct, and delete INBOX. Then I'd transfer the rest of the folders.
Karl Boyken > Situation .. > > I would like to move a given user's email from uw-imap to cyrus (in > fact all users). While this is happening, I would like the users to be > able to access their email normally (as it is being moved, of course) > on cyrus. > > I can make it so I can access the uw-imap mailbox for the user without > knowing his password (one line temporary hack to uw-imap to allow for a > "super password") > > I can use the cyrus admin user to access the cyrus side at a "global > level". > > I can then use a tool like imapsync to copy mailboxes from uw-imap to > cyrus easily enough. > > What I can't figure out is how to move the INBOX. There appears to be > no "mailbox prefix" that when used with the cyrus admin user, will put > the email in the users INBOX (the special one where new email lands, > not a folder named INBOX under it!) > > Thanks for any and all help - Yossie > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html