Converting from BSD mailbox format to Cyrus v2 format

[marc.bigler at day.com]

Thanks for the tip, I will have a try at it hopefully this week-end, and
let you know in case it doesn't work well.

Regards
Marc



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  |      To:     marc.bigler at day.com                                                                         |
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marc.bigler at day.com wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I will need to migrate a few users which were on an old OpenBSD mail
server
> using the original BSD mailbox format to the new Cyrus v2.1.9 mailstore
> format. I've already read the book Managing IMAP but unfortunately their
> scripts are for Cyrus v1.5 which was a bit different from Cyrus v2
because
> it's now using Berkley DB.
>
> So does anyone have any tips or tools on how to convert BSD mailboxes to
> the new Cyrus v2 mailstore ?

Try the 'mboxcvt' tool in the imap-utils package
ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap-utils.tar.Z

I've used it to take archives of large mailing lists/newsgroups (in mbox
format) and feed them into a mailbox on my Cyrus server.

I also believe that these tools might be deprecated and replaced by the
more general 'mailutil' in the UW IMAP distro.

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