Moving/Renaming Top Level Mailboxes

[Andrew Morgan]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Greg Harris wrote:

>> I have not attempted user renames myself (we have a script to copy a
>> mailbox over IMAP, then delete the old mailbox).  However, if you are
>> seeing the new mailbox under Other Users, then it sounds like the ACLs
>> were not updated during the move.  I don't know if they are supposed to be
>> automatically updated or not, since this could cause unexpected access
>> changes.
>>
>>  	Andy
>
> A FAQ covering these issues would probably be helpful to a lot of people,
> however, a cyradm script should be extraordinarily easy to create, (if you
> know the perl to do it, which I currently don't.)  Andy, you mention a
> script and it seems like the script does exactly what I have done the long
> hard way.  Is there a link to this script?  Is it something that is easily
> run?  Slightly off list, but is this a script that could be easily added to
> web-cyradm?  (This would be the most preferred way, so that we can have
> admins unfamiliar with CLI quickly do this stuff).

I use several different perl scripts to manage mailboxes on Cyrus.  You 
can find all of these at:

   http://oregonstate.edu/~morgan/cyrus/public/

The steps would be:

1. Create new user in your auth backend.
2. Use create_user_inbox.pl to create the new mailbox for the user.
3. Use copy_user_mailbox.pl to copy the old mailbox to the new mailbox.
4. Use delete_user_mail.pl to delete the old mailbox.
5. Remove the old user from your auth backend.

I have never used web-cyradm, so I have no idea if these could be 
integrated into that software...

 	Andy
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