mass importing/exporting imap folders

[Andrew J Caird]

Quoting Michael King <mking at webinternational.net>:

> 
> Hi all.
> 
> I'm not 100% sure this is the right place to ask this, but it's the only
> mailing list I saw on the Cyrus IMAP website.  Please bear with me.
> 
> I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to export and then import via
> IMAP?
> 
> That is, if I have IMAP account 1 on server A, and I have IMAP account 2
> on server B, I want to export all of the folders (and messages, if
> possible) off of Server A, and then import them onto Server B - giving
> me a "backup" of sorts.
> 
> Is there any way to do this?  If not, is there any other interest in
> developing a tool such as this?

Michael,
  This is a fine place to ask this question - it gets asked here a lot.

  If this is just for one person, most modern IMAP clients will let you connect
to multiple IMAP servers at once, and you can simply drag folders and messages
from one server to another.

  If you have to do this for many users, there are several options.  My favorite
is mailutil from the University of Washington pine distribution.  You can also
search the archives of this list (
http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html) for the words "export" and
"migrate" and you'll see lots of discussion on this issue.

  Hope this helps.
--
Andrew Caird
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