Cyradm and the "xfermailbox" command

[Ken Murchison]

Rob Tanner wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm about to move some 5,000 accounts (some 60,000 mailboxes) from an old
> ESYS server to Cyrus-IMAP, and I notice that cyradm now includes an
> "xfermailbox" command taht will move the mailbox from one server to the
> another.  When I tried it on a test mailbox, it just hung there and never
> transferred anything -- which makes sense as I was not authenticated to the
> destination server.
> 
> Using IMAP to move the mailboxes is much more straight forward than the
> machinations I would have to go through to convert ESYS style mailboxes to
> Cyrus.  So what do I need to do toi make it work?

The XFER command is a non-standard Cyrus extension.  This will only work 
between two Cyrus mailboxes.


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