Anyone with experience using imapsync

[David Lang]

--On Monday, August 21, 2006 10:29:26 PM -0700 Rob Tanner 
<rtanner at linfield.edu> wrote:

> David,
>
> I tried various combinations based on your suggestions.  The --prefix2
> "INBOX."  was the most interesting.  Instead of userxyz, I ended up with
> INBOXxyz.  Just a variation on the same problem.
> One thing I did forget to mention.  The saslauthd program is pointing to
> the shadow file at the moment, and none of the folks (ultimately I need
> to move about 4,500 accounts) are in the shadow file.  I have to
> eventually switch the pointer to LDAP but that requires some other prep
> that I'm not yet ready for.  But could that possibly explain my problem?

I think that the fact that it's dropping the . when it is trying to access 
the destination folder is the key.

when you add the --prefix INBOX. you may have to quote it to have it keep 
the . in the name.

when I get home tonight I'll check the command line I've been useing at 
home.

David Lang

> -- Rob
>
> On 08/21/2006 05:21 PM, David Lang wrote:
>> I'm working with it to copy some things currently, I'm doing it a user
>> at a time, and found that I needed to set --prefix2 "INBOX." (note the
>> . ) to get things to copy properly. it looks like you may need to set
>> --sep or --sep2 to "." as well.
>>
>> also, take a look at imapcopy, if you are just doing a one-way move it
>> may be easier to setup (imapsync can keep the two in sync while you
>> are testing)
>>
>> David Lang
>>
>> On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Rob Tanner wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to migrate mail from one IMAP server to another using the
>>> perl program imapsync.  Both the source and destination servers are
>>> Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.3 servers.  I have added a second partition to the
>>> destination server and made it the default by configuring imapd.conf
>>> as follows:
>>>
>>> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
>>> partition-belgarath: /var/spool/belgarath
>>> defaultpartition: belgarath
>>>
>>> With this setup, I can use cyradm and by hand correctly adds users to
>>> the new partition.  When I use imapsync to copy users over.  Instead
>>> of folders such as user.xyz and user.xyx.sent and user.xyz.drafts, I
>>> get userxyz and userxyzsent and userxyzdrafts -- all as separate and
>>> entirely independent folders and not even a hierarchy.
>>>
>>> Here's a script I used just to test and move over one user:
>>>
>>>
>>> # ! /bin/bash
>>>
>>> ./imapsync \
>>>       --host1 belgarath.linfield.edu --user1 cyrus --passfile1
>>> /home/rtanner/imapsync/cyrus.pwd \
>>>       --host2 polgara.linfield.edu --user2 cyrus --passfile2
>>> /home/rtanner/imapsync/cyrus.pwd \
>>>       --syncinternaldates \
>>>       --subscribe \
>>>       --include "^user\.aabryan.*$"
>>>
>>>
>>> Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Rob
>>>
>>>
>>>
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