On Thu, September 15, 2011 14:43, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 14:10 +0200, Mogens Melander wrote: >> Hi Guys >> >> I realize that this is probably not a Cyrus problem, but the imapsync >> community don't strike me as responsive. And you guys know everything :) >> >> I'm trying to move from an old uw-imap to Cyrus 2.4.8 using imapsync 1.456. >> >> So far my main problem has been the lack off useful documentation on >> imapsync's part. Specially on the --regextrans2 parameter. I managed >> to figure that one out by 2 days of Googling and trial-error attempts. >> >> My remaining problem is, how to create parent folders for sub folders. >> >> The uw-imap folder structure is flat (a list of files) so i would like >> to get related stuff into a tree structure using subfolders. >> >> I got a bunch of --regextrans2 >> >> --regextrans2 's#^BURAPA$#Biker Stuff/BURAPA#' \ >> --regextrans2 's#^BikeWeek$#Biker Stuff/BikeWeek#' \ >> --regextrans2 's#^Biker Events$#Biker Stuff/Biker Events#' \ >> --regextrans2 's#^Hard Rock$#Biker Stuff/Hard Rock#' \ >> --regextrans2 's#^John Daytona$#Biker Stuff/John Daytona#' \ >> >> Resulting in correct created subfolders >> >> user/testuser/Biker Stuff/BURAPA@xxxxxxxxxxx (\HasNoChildren) >> user/testuser/Biker Stuff/BikeWeek@xxxxxxxxxxx (\HasNoChildren) >> user/testuser/Biker Stuff/Biker Events@xxxxxxxxxxx (\HasNoChildren) >> user/testuser/Biker Stuff/Hard Rock@xxxxxxxxxxx (\HasNoChildren) >> user/testuser/Biker Stuff/John Daytona@xxxxxxxxxxx (\HasNoChildren) >> >> Using Squirrel Mail as client, i would like to collapse those >> folders, to only show "Biker Stuff (unread/total)". >> >> For this to work, i need the parent folder >> >> user/testuser/Biker Stuff@xxxxxxxxxxx (\HasChildren) >> >> To be created. I can do that manually in cyradm or Squirrel Mail, but there's >> too many parent folders needed for each user to do it by hand. >> >> Any ideas as to how this can be done. Either by imapsync or some clever script? > ---- > sounds like you're trying to perform surgery with a butter knife instead > of a scalpel. Maybe so, but i would think the imapsync --regextrans2 option was ment for this kind of scenario. > Generally, imapsync would do a bulk imap to imap transfer and then users > folder structure would remain unchanged (and hopefully the seen.db would > also remain unchanged). Flags, state and Dates remain unchanged. No problem there. > Is there some blocker ? ie characters used in folder names that are not > permitted in cyrus? If so, why not use sed to change them to something > legal. Should only require a little testing. Nope. Even something like this works. Translates to 'Humlebæk Auto' :) --regextrans2 's#^Humleb&AMMApg-k Auto$#Arbejde/Humleb&AOY-k Auto# All is good, except for the missing intermediate levels in the structure. Suggestions to other cool imap migration tools, up to the task, are also welcome ;^) -- Later Mogens Melander -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
