Re: Modifying Cyrus IMAP to ease a migration to Gmail?

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On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Dan White <dwhite@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On 10/03/12 10:51 -0400, Brian Chase wrote:

Anyway, so the consulting company we're working with to help us with the
migration is using Google's GAMME tool.  It's a mail migration tool that
works with Exchange and IMAP servers to pull the data out of the old mail
servers and into Google's servers.  It's a pretty limited program, and
unfortunately, for it's IMAP support is more limited than we'd like.  The
GAMME tool takes simple lists of users, in a formatted text file, and uses
that information to login as each user on the IMAP server and then copy all
their mail onto the Google server.  The problem with that is it needs the
plain-text passwords for all the existing users to be able to log into the
IMAP server.

Page 25 of the Administrator's Guide points to a solution using an
administrative password, rather than specifying the user's password, such
as:

adminuser#adminpassword, cyrususer1

This may work if you specify a proxyservers user on your frontend
(adminuser).


Well, crap.  I just checked the current version of the GAMME tool and admin guide and it appears they've added the functionality.  The date on the new guide is Sept 28, 2012.  It's been about a week and half since I last had my eyes on this project.  The previous version of the tool didn't support that, or at least it wasn't documented in their administrative guide and our Google Partner consultants didn't know about it.  *That* should make this all a whole lot easier.  I was thinking it was pretty stupid that their tool didn't support an administrative login for Cyrus.

How are you planning to transfer the passwords to gmail?

Consider enabling 'auto_transition: true' within /etc/imapd.conf, on each
of your frontends, which would store the cleartext password of each user
the next time the login, into /etc/sasldb2.

We weren't planning on migrating the passwords... but that might actually be helpful for the first time syncing of passwords with mobile devices.    For mail/google apps we'll be using the SSO/SAML option to allow logins against our existing authentication servers.  

In any case.  Thanks for the quick and helpful responses to you (and Adam).  These should all get us moving in the right direction on the project.

Brian.

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