On Tuesday 04 November 2008 04:25:49 am ml@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello List, > > can i convert qpopper to cyrus somehow? I assume you mean: you are running a qpopper server, and wish to migrate the contents of the POP3 mboxes to Cyrus IMAP. Sure, you can do it. The O'Reilly "Managing IMAP" book, while dated, has a section on converting from Berkeley mbox to Cyrus. There are some tools available, but they are primitive. The amount to: 1) Parse the qpopper mbox files into messages 2) Put those messages into Cyrus. State 2 has two options: Talk IMAP to Cyrus. Or, put individual files on Cyrus and run reconstruct. When we converted I choose option 3: write my own. This was a perl program which ran on the qpopper server, and talked Cyrus. It used Mail::Util and Mail::Header to parse mbox, and IMAP::Client to talk Cyrus. I looked over this program, and it is too specialized to our needs. We had a split domain: Webmail kept email on the IMAP server, but new email came to the qpopper server. The Webmail client was modified to look for new email on qpopper, as well as IMAP. Yes, this is odd, but the idea was to smooth the transition as new students arrived, and accounts turned over. The final step was to migrate the remaining qpopper users, and we choose to move only the unread messages to IMAP, then switch (via a Cisco redirector) the POP3 port to the Cyrus server. So, the program was moving only unread email, and only for a subset of the population. In the process it also moved email out of the Cyrus INBOX into a subfolder, so that newly switched users would not download any, potentially very old, ``Webmail'' email to their POP3 clients (a difficult to reverse process). So, short answer---yes, it's easy, there are some simple scripts out there to help, but you might find yourself better off writing something using Perl or your favorite interpreted language with a good IMAP client, depending on the specifics of your site. Mike -- Michael D. Sofka sofkam@xxxxxxx C&MT Sr. Systems Programmer, Email, TeX, Epistemology Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/ ---- 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
