Re: Migrate message flags to cyrus

From: Kai Wang (no email)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2006 - 12:23:56 EST

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    Thank you, Michael. Do you know how to run mailutil in a script? I tried
    it. But I could not find how to submit a user's password to it.

    Michael Menge wrote:
    > Kai Wang wrote:
    >>
    >> Greetings.
    >>
    >> We are in the process of migrating from uw-imap to cyrus. I could not
    >> find any tool to migrate message flags(answered, deleted, flagged,
    >> draft, seen). I know that the first 4 flags are saved in cyrus.index
    >> file and the seen one is in <userid>.seen file. The "tagged for
    >> deletion" flag is very important to us and I need to migrate at least
    >> this one. I wonder if anybody can give me a hand.
    >>
    >> Thanks
    >>
    > The best way to perserve the flags is by transfering the eMails over
    > the IMAP-Protocol. There are severel tools to do this job. Most of
    > them are written to sync two ore more mailfolders.
    >
    > As far as i have tested them there was no perfect ore even best
    > migration tool.
    >
    > We will use the mailutil programm which comes with the uw-imap server.
    > It was the fastest programm and it keeps the flags.
    >
    >
    >

    -- 
    Kai Wang
    System Services
    Information Technologies, University of Calgary,
    2500 University Drive, N.W.,
    Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4
    Phone (403) 220-2423, Fax (403) 282-9361
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