Re: Migrate message flags to cyrus

From: Michael Menge (no email)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2006 - 02:16:07 EST

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    Kai Wang wrote:
    >
    > 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.

    expect can automate interactiv programss. With autoexpect you can create
    the script for expect

    > 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.
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >

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