imap transfer

[Simon Matter]

> The problem is little simpler.  we have two accounts - one current, the
> other one is an old one.
> The idea is to migrate the mail from old one to the current one and
> expunge the old account at some future date.  However the user has only
> access to the current account, no access to the old account.  So the
> user can not drag or drop or anything like that.
> On top of that, we also don't have the passwords of neither accounts.
>
> Multiply the problem with 450 pairs - this is what we are facing.

You could just move the content of the old mailbox to a subfolder of the
new mailbox, reconstruct should do the rest.

Simon

>
> Regards
>
> Sujit Choudhury
>
> Craig White wrote:
>> On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 11:35 +0100, Sujit Choudhury wrote:
>>
>>>We have two users.  We would like to copy all the mail from one user to
>>>another.  What is the best way to do it?
>>>Copying file by file will not work as it would clash with existing names
>>>like 300. etc.
>>>Renaming is out of question as we would like to preserve both the
>>> accounts.
>>>
>>>Any idea will be appreciated.
>>
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>> why not use the ACL's to share the one mailbox with the other user?
>>
>> Craig
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