Re: Change username of mail account, or move mail to new account

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Freddie Cash wrote:
> On Mon, June 19, 2006 7:26 am, Alan in Toronto wrote:
>>>> SquirrelMail 1.4.6
>>>> PHP 4.3.11
>>>> UWIMAPD (IMAP4rev1 2003.339p-cpanel)
>>>> Apache 1.3.34
>>>> CentOS 4.3
>>>> Our webserver runs as nobody.
>
>>>> I want to change the username of a mail account that is accessed
>>>> with SM.
>>>> e.g. I want to change it from Moe@xxxxxxxxxxx to
>>>> Curly@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> (Domain stays the same, but mail user name changes.)
>
> Look into the imapsync program.  It will allow you to move or copy
> messages from one account to another.  The accounts can be on the same
> IMAP server or on two different servers.  It runs on any Unix-like
> system.  I've used it very successfully to transfer accounts between
> servers (from UW-IMAP to Cyrus, from Courier to Cyrus, and from Cyrus
> to Cyrus).
>
> Using imapsync, the process to "rename" an account would be:
>   - create a new account with the new name
>   - use imapsync to copy/move all messages from the old account to the
> new account
>   - copy the SquirrelMail .abook, .sig, and .pref files over to the
> new account name in the SM data directory

Interesting. Thanks for that.





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