> On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 03:47:26PM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: >> Essentially, I need a tool that I can point at servers A and B and tell >> it "get all the email from my account on server A to a specific folder >> on my account on server B, preserving the subfolders hierarchy". >> The tool needs to be smart enough to repeat the operation later on but >> then it must only transfer the new messages. >> The tool may run on one or the other IMAP servers, or even on a 3rd >> machine, since it should be network-based. Pretty much all systems are >> Linux 'round here, some Windows stragglers too. >> >> Sort of like rsync for IMAP, if that makes sense. >> >> So far, the only tool I've found is imapsync: >> >> http://freshmeat.net/projects/imapsync/ >> >> Anyone tried it with Cyrus? Good/bad experiences? >> >> Are there any other tools that work better with Cyrus? > > Another thing you might want to consider is offlineimap: > > http://software.complete.org/offlineimap/ > > It's a pile of multithreaded python, but don't let that put you > off! I've found it quite robust for IMAP -> Maildir usage (Indeed, > I'm replying to this message via Mutt using local Maildirs which > are kept synchronised with my FastMail (Cyrus 2.3.7+patches) IMAP > account). > > Imap <=> Imap usage I found less robust in that it sometimes got > confused when it had been killed in the middle of operations. If > you didn't keep killing it all the time (my usage patterns were > pretty strange) it was better - and also I think if you had a server > which supports UID PLUS like Cyrus does then it would be safer. > Give it a look though. > > apt-get install offlineimap works on pretty much any sane linux > these days :) (I believe you can even get it with apt4rpm, though > that's not my particular kink) For RedHat/Fedora (not blessed by apt/deb by default), I'm maintaining offlineimap src rpms here http://www.invoca.ch/pub/packages/offlineimap/ which can be built using rpmbuild --rebuild offlineimap-4.x.xx-x.src.rpm The same is true for imapsync here http://www.invoca.ch/pub/packages/imapsync/ Simon ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
