On Wed, 19 Oct, 2005 at 07:07:57 +0200, Jon Clausen wrote:
On Tue, 18 Oct, 2005 at 12:57:58 +0200, Sandy Drobic wrote:
Just add another server account in your mail client and copy the contents of the old server to the new. It will take some hours but that shouldn't be a problem.
Quite so. It's just that I tend to think that one of the reasons we have computers in the first place, is to *avoid* time-consuming, simple and repetitive tasks... :P
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I think I'll go back a couple of steps, and look into imapsync suggested earlier in the thread.
Which is what I did: Imapsync needs the perl module Mail::IMAPClient which I installed from CPAN. The --include option makes it do what I want (copy 2nd sublevel folders). I just had to realize how to construct a regex that matches the folders I wanted. It's running now, and from what I've seen so far it's still going to take hours to finish. The difference (from 'manually' copying, using a mail-client) is that it runs without human intervention, leaving me free to attend to other activities... :) Conclusion; The backup/restore approach is probably magnitudes faster (since it avoids the IMAP overhead, and you're free to compress/decompress contents for the actual transfer). It does however require you to think ahead and, not least, *some* familiarity WRT the inner workings of your imapd of choice. Imapsync otoh, takes little effort to set up, seems reliable, is fairly straightforward to operate, but takes time to run. For me, imapsync provided the path of least resistance. Of course it's no substitute for a backup strategy, but it satisfies my immediate need. Thanks for everyone's input. /Jon -- YMMV