Imapsync alternative?

[Scott Lambert]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 01:07:58PM +0100, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've used in the past imapsync for mailbox migrations, but sometimes I
> found problems. For the latest version I have to pay. I can understand
> it from the view of the developer, maybe I will pay him for the latest
> version. But I will look for alternatives first, preferable those who
> are in Debian.

The older versions have not stopped functioning.  You only need the
latest version if the older version has issues with one of your
IMAP servers.  I paid him after I had migrated three of my four
servers.  The fourth would not convert even with the, at that time,
latest version of imapsync.  The software has been useful to me.

Cyrus to Cyrus should be a slam dunk even with very old versions
of imapsync.

> I saw some other programs like mailsync and movemail (from the GNU
> mailutils), and I am interested if there is a good alternative for Imapsync.
> 
> For me it's also an option to use something like rsync to copy all files
> of a mailbox from one Cyrus mailserver to another. Is that a good idea?

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Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
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