Migrating from UW imap to Cyrus

[Sebastian Hagedorn]

Hi,

> I'm in the process of moving from UW imap to Cyrus Imap.  Somewhere in
> my reading up on the compile/install/configure process I could have
> sworn that I saw something about some scripts that can be used to
> transfer my existing mbox mail folders into Cyrus.  Unfortuantely, now
> that I'm actually ready for that step, I don't seem to be able to find
> either the scripts or the reference to it.  Anybody have any idea what
> I'm talking about?

we just did a migration of 30,000 users this past weekend. Our approach was 
not to try to do it perfect, but only "good enough". All we did 
automatically was to copy the users' inboxes, not their personal 
mailfolders. We give them tools to do that themselves. The main reason for 
that decision was that it's near impossible to tell *where* users have 
their folders. With UW imapd the home directory is the root of the tree. 
Many users have "Mail" or "mail" as their mail folders, but essentially 
it's just a guess. We knew, however, that all students had their INBOX in 
their AFS home directories.

We also decided not to use mailutil, but to do it the dirty way. The reason 
for that was that we thought using mailutil would take too long.

So here's what we did (all the users and INBOXes had been created in 
advance):

- we mounted a AFS2NFS translator partition containing the home directories 
(the new server doesn't use AFS)

- we then ran an overhauled version of inboxfer, a Perl script that uses 
formail to split mboxes in separate mail files

- finally we ran reconstruct on the folders and did a "quota -f"

That's it. It took about 9 hours for the 30,000 users with roughly 40 GB of 
mail. I can provide the scripts if there's interest.

Cheers, Sebastian Hagedorn
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Universität zu Köln / Cologne University - Tel. +49-221-478-5587
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