imap transfer

[Tarjei Huse]

On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 13:37 +0100, Sujit Choudhury wrote:
> 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.

Maybe you can use a commandline tool like imapsync as and admin user
(f.x. cyrus) and do it that way?
T

> 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.
> > 
> > ----
> > why not use the ACL's to share the one mailbox with the other user?
> > 
> > Craig
> > 
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