Moving mail to a new machine

[meier at logmail.net]

Hi,

I recently moved several mailboxes from Oracle EmailServer to Cyrus using
the script imapcp found at freshmeat:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/mbcp/?topic_id=28

The script basically worked out of the box on my RH9 and since it is a
python script it was easy to modify it to my special needs. The transfer
never stalled and transferred large mails of a couple of MB's without any
trouble.

Dave

> Hello,
>
> If its just you, ie, one account, the easiest way would probably been
> to simply drag and drop folders from one account (machine) to the
> other. This would of course require that both machines be up and
> running, which it sounds like you have.
>
> Failing that, what you need to realise is that a directory is not
> a folder. In order for a directory to be a folder it must be in
> the mailboxes database. Getting the entry there would depend upon
> the type of database you are using. I usually use the cyrus admin
> tool or the Perl IMAP::Admin module to create folders.
>
> Regards,
> Earl Shannon
>
>
> Gordon wrote:
>> I previously had my imap server running on one machine that I had set up
>> myself. I had several folders beside my inbox. I recently built a new
>> machine with a new version of Redhat and I've built and installed the
>> latest version of cyrus.
>>
>> I have cyrus running and configured but I'm having a heck of a time
>> getting to my old mail files. What I've done is copy the whole directory
>> tree of my mail files to the directory /var/spool/imap/g/user/gmc. I've
>> gone into cyradm and created a mailbox called user.gmc and set the acl
>> to write. I use mozilla for email and I was able to set it up and I can
>> now see the emails from my old inbox. The problem is that I can't figure
>> out how to get to the email that are in the other folders. They're in
>> directories under the directory stated above. Can anyone help with this
>> bit? Was there an easier way to do this?
>>
>> Gordon
>>
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