Hi All,
I would like to migrate my existing PP3 inboxs to newly created Cyrus
IMAP mailbox. Is anybody gone across this requirement.
Please give me a right solution.
Thanks in advance.

Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 10:15:26AM +0530, BipinDas wrote:
I would like to migrate my existing PP3 inboxs to newly created Cyrus IMAP mailbox.
Is anybody gone across this requirement.
Please give me a right solution.
WBR

This may sound stupid, but if you only have a couple of mailboxes the
easiest way may be this one:
Configure both the pop3 and the new imap account in thunderbird, select
all mails with CTRL-a and drag&drop the mails in a imap folder.
Thunderbird moves all mails (takes some time) and retains the status
(mail has been read or not).
Copied 10000 mails without a problem.

BipinDas schrieb:
Hi All,
I would like to migrate my existing PP3 inboxs to newly created Cyrus
IMAP mailbox. Is anybody gone across this requirement.
Please give me a right solution.
Thanks in advance.

Florian Gleixner wrote:
This may sound stupid, but if you only have a couple of mailboxes the
easiest way may be this one:
Configure both the pop3 and the new imap account in thunderbird, select
all mails with CTRL-a and drag&drop the mails in a imap folder.
Thunderbird moves all mails (takes some time) and retains the status
(mail has been read or not).
Copied 10000 mails without a problem.
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BipinDas schrieb:

>Hi All,
>I would like to migrate my existing PP3 inboxs to newly created Cyrus
>IMAP mailbox. Is anybody gone across this requirement.
>Please give me a right solution.
>Thanks in advance.
>--
>>
>
>
>
>

Sir,
I do have more than 10,000 mailboxes. May be a stupid question,but i
have to found an answer.

Hi,

i know too different konzepts of migrating mailservers. They both have
pros and cons.

1. split mbox, copy, reconstruct
depending on how your PP-server stores the mails, you have to split
each mailbox into single files for every e-mail. Then you copy the files
to the cyrus folder and run reconstruct.
But you will loose the seen status and you may have to change the files
depending on the fileformat of the original inbox.

2. use PP/IMAP-Protokoll to copy the e-mails from one server to another.
I have only tested this for Imap-Imap transfers, but mailutil (part of the
UW-Imap) can handle different types of servers.
You must know the passwords, or be able to gain access to the
PP/IMAP account

Quoting BipinDas <bipindas.k (AT) ditro (DOT) com>:

>BipinDas schrieb:
>>
Hi All,
I would like to migrate my existing PP3 inboxs to newly created Cyrus
IMAP mailbox. Is anybody gone across this requirement.
Please give me a right solution.
Thanks in advance.
--

>>
Sir,
I do have more than 10,000 mailboxes. May be a stupid question,but i
have to found an answer.

Michael Menge wrote:
Hi,

i know too different konzepts of migrating mailservers. They both have
pros and cons.

1. split mbox, copy, reconstruct
depending on how your PP-server stores the mails, you have to split
each mailbox into single files for every e-mail. Then you copy the files
to the cyrus folder and run reconstruct.
But you will loose the seen status and you may have to change the files
depending on the fileformat of the original inbox.

2. use PP/IMAP-Protokoll to copy the e-mails from one server to another.
I have only tested this for Imap-Imap transfers, but mailutil (part
of the
UW-Imap) can handle different types of servers.
You must know the passwords, or be able to gain access to the
PP/IMAP account

if your server has an admin password you can use that :-). E.g. the
cyrus admin. In the past I have set up uw-imap to use pam, and pam had
an admin password.