merging two cyrus imap spools into one?

[Carl Brewer]

Simon Matter wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've got a couple of servers running standalone Cyrus
>> for imap services (linked to sendmail).
>>
>> Recently due to some enforced downtime, I had to get one
>> server to accept mail for another one, and now that the
>> original server is back up I want to move the mail that's
>> sitting on the repacement back onto the original.
>>
>> Is there some easy way to do this?  I can't just tar up the
>> relevant user directories as (at the very least!) the message
>> id's will probably clash.
> 
> There are several imapcopy tools around which you can use to copy messages
> vi a the IMAP protocol. However one requirement is that both servers are
> up and running at the same time.

I can do that, and I guess I can do that with a good (Thunderbird) MUA.

Thanks for the suggestion, it's so obvious I should have guessed it!


> It also may depend on how much data you have to transfer and how many
> users are affected.

It's only one user, so it's easy ...

thanks

Carl


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