On Tue, 18 Oct, 2005 at 12:57:58 +0200, Sandy Drobic wrote:
Jon Clausen wrote:
Right. I guess I should have pointed out earlier, that I am in fact the only user on either of the servers.
Ah, in that case there is at least no one breathing fire down your neck to get the problem solved. (^-^)
Indeed.
My original plan was to copy the contents using IMAP ...
Why don't you do that?
Well... I would have, if any of the clients I know of supported the idea of copying folders (maybe even recursively)?
That is the usual way to migrate a mailbox to another server, when there is no tool available.
Indeed. But I've only just in the course of this correspondance become aware of the lack of (SUSE-provided) tools.
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
Webcyradm should have the option to reconstruct a mailbox. Have you tried that?
No. Don't think I will either. I don't feel like introducing another layer of abstraction into the mix.
By the way, I think Suse already performs a text export of the mailbox database every night. Have a look at /var/lib/imap/backup.
Yep: plenty of mailboxes.txt.2005-xx-yy.zz.gz's there. I think I'll go back a couple of steps, and look into imapsync suggested earlier in the thread. Thanks for the responses anyway :) /Jon -- YMMV