Op 23-01-12 13:41, Michael Menge schreef: > Hi, > > Quoting Paul van der Vlis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> Hello, >> >> I've used in the past imapsync for mailbox migrations, but sometimes I >> found problems. For the latest version I have to pay. I can understand >> it from the view of the developer, maybe I will pay him for the latest >> version. But I will look for alternatives first, preferable those who >> are in Debian. >> >> I saw some other programs like mailsync and movemail (from the GNU >> mailutils), and I am interested if there is a good alternative for >> Imapsync. >> >> For me it's also an option to use something like rsync to copy all files >> of a mailbox from one Cyrus mailserver to another. Is that a good idea? >> >> With regards, >> Paul van der Vlis. >> >> http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/mailsync >> http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/mailutils > > > Years ago we used mailutils to migrate from UW-IMAPD to cyrus, which > was much faster than imapsync. AFAIR i had to patch mailutils to allow > "-merge append" for the copy option but I can't find the patch anymore. > > If you migrate from Cyrus to Cyrus you can use rsync IMHO, That's good news ;-) I expect I have to do this, when syncing the mailbox "paul": - create a mailbox with the same name on the new server - sync /var/spool/cyrus/mail/p/user/paul - sync /var/lib/cyrus/user/p/paul/paul.* - sync /var/spool/sieve/p/paul Is that everything? What when I have to change the name of the mailbox, because of a duplicate name on the new server? > you might > have to convert some databases if you change the archietecture or the > installed version of BDB. I am using skiplist, so I think I don't need that. Correct? In this case I go from a 64-bit AMD system to a 32-bit Intel system. > If your current version of cyrus is 2.3.x you can also use cyrussync, > which will take care of different archetektures and databese versions. No, it's still 2.2, but good to know for the future. With regards, Paul. -- Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer, Groningen http://www.vandervlis.nl ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
