From: Andrew J Caird (no email)
Date: Mon Feb 02 2004 - 10:09:50 EST
Dwight,
I'm starting a similar project, and have looked at several of the tools
that are out there - if you check the archives for this list for that last
two or three weeks in January 04, you'll see a discussion of this.
Based on my very limited testing, mailutil from the UW IMAP/Pine
distribution is the best tool. It can migrate IMAP-to-IMAP, or from
mboxfile-to-IMAP (and in the other direction). Since, as far as I know,
UW-IMAP doesn't have an authuser option, I've successfully migrated
mailboxes from the UW-IMAP server to the Cyrus IMAP server with a command
like:
mailutil copy /imapfolders/loginid/foldername "{cyrus/novalidate-cert/authuser=cyrusadmin/user=loginid}user.loginid.foldername"
run as root on the UW-IMAP server. On my servers/network I can transfer
about 5 messages per second. It is interesting to run mailutil with the
-verbose and -debug flags to see what it's doing, but after a while it
just clutters the screen.
Hope this helps.
-- Andrew Caird 215.728.4071 Email Administrator Fox Chase Cancer Center On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Dwight Tovey wrote: > Hello all > > I'm in the process of moving from UW imap to Cyrus Imap. Somewhere in > my reading up on the compile/install/configure process I could have > sworn that I saw something about some scripts that can be used to > transfer my existing mbox mail folders into Cyrus. Unfortuantely, now > that I'm actually ready for that step, I don't seem to be able to find > either the scripts or the reference to it. Anybody have any idea what > I'm talking about? > > /dwight > -- > Dwight N. Tovey > email: > web: http://www.dtovey.net/~dwight > ----------- > Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
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