Moving folders across backends

Simon Beale simon at minos.org.uk
Wed Aug 4 06:08:35 EDT 2010


> Am Mittwoch, den 04.08.2010, 10:46 +0100 schrieb Simon Beale:
>
>> Yeah, I'd wondered that at first, but I don't believe so. Below is an
>> IMAP
>> traffic session (run as user simon), user.test is on backend1, INBOX
>> and
>> user.test2 are on backend2.
>
> Ok, no problem with the permissions.
> Does copy work?
> If so just create folder on backend2, copy all messages from backend1
> and (on success) delete original folder.

While that would work, and it's something that I could do for myself, it
doesn't help when I roll out shared folders to all our users, and they
start using the Outlook/Thunderbird normal delete mechanism, which is why
I need RENAME to work.



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