imap migration tools

[Tim Pushor]

I too have had this problem in the past. I have had to migrate cyrus -> 
cyrus, and Groupwise -> cyrus (at least that was the right direction ;-).

I cound imapcopy indespensable and the only thing that did the right 
thing with groupwise.

http://home.arcor.de/armin.diehl/imapcopy/imapcopy.html

Tim


Tarjei Huse wrote:

>You might want to look at imapmigrat over at cyrus-utils.sf.net.  I've used that
>in the past with ok results.
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>tarjei
>Quoting Kendrick Vargas <ken at hudat.com>:
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>>Hi folks,
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>>I've just set up a new machine and have everything working almost exactly 
>>the way I want. I am at the last stage of migrating off an old system. I 
>>often see discussions here about which tools people need to do a proper 
>>migration from one server to another, but apparently my search foo is 
>>kinda weak.
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>>Basically I want to do a copy from IMAP to IMAP, both servers being cyrus 
>>- one version 2.1 and the other 2.2. From the searches I ran it seems that 
>>the general concensus is to use imapcp, however it's homepage seems to 
>>think it's experimental software and it hasn't been updated since august. 
>>I don't mind unsupported, but experimental kinda frightens me :-)
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>>In any case, I tried something similar a long time ago and I remember 
>>having issues with various mailboxes that simply had a crapload of mail in 
>>them. I'm wondering what people's experiences are moving several thousand 
>>messages in one mailbox and 1-500 megs worth of mail for any one folder. I 
>>don't want the script dieing half way through the transfer.
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>>Any pointers to other tools that might fit the bill would be appreciated 
>>too. Thanks much :-)
>>			-peace
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>>-- 
>>Let he who is without clue kiss my ass
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