On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Gonzalo Servat wrote:
> Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 15:02:51 +1000
> From: Gonzalo Servat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Andrew McNaughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Converting courier-imap Maildir to Cyrus Maildir
> structure
>
> On 9/07/2003 4:50 PM +1200, Andrew McNaughton wrote:
>
> > If you have a mail client talking to both the old and new servers at once,
> > it might be as easy to just move the messages from one folder to another
> > using that client. The mail would all have to move through the client,
> > but it might be faster than writing a script. IF you can do it with a
> > mail client on the mail server then that stands in for your script pretty
> > well.
>
> If it was for only one client, sure (even though not many mail clients copy
> a bunch of folders across IMAP servers) but we're talking 200+ users here :)
Fair enough.
You might still find it convenient to look at IMAP client libraries rather
than thinking in terms of the mail folders.
eg if perl suits you then Mail::IMAPClient 's migrate method looks like
the sort of thing you are after.
You would have to be able to handle the authentication stuff.
Andrew
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