-----Original Message----- From: squirrelmail-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:squirrelmail-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Freddie Cash Sent: Saturday 24 June 2006 0:02 To: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Migrating users from openwebmail to squirrelmail > On Fri, June 23, 2006 6:24 pm, Christopher J. Hinkle wrote: > > One unfortunately rather crucial step I overlooked in creating my new > > mail server with a nifty new webmail interface is the fact that I'd > > need to migrate my users' messages from one to the other. > > > Does anyone know of an automated way (or even a not-so-automated way) > > to move users' saved messages (separate folders, named all sorts of > > things) from OpenWebMail to SquirrelMail? > > What's the message storage used by OpenWebMail? Does it interface directly with > the filesystem, via POP3, via IMAP, via something else? > > If it's IMAP, there's nothing needed other than to point SquirrelMail at the > IMAP server. > > If it's IMAP, but you want to migrate to another, separate, IMAP server, have a > look at the imapsync program. > > If it's POP3, you can migrate the Inbox using the mail_fetch plugin. > Possibly even the other folders. Depending on the POP3 server used, you can > probably even access it via IMAP (Courier and Cyrus both allow this), then see > above. > > If it's direct filesystem access to Maildir or mbox, you'll have lots of > trouble. :) Hi Freddie... Unfortunately it looks like OpenWebMail uses its own method of storage, interacting directly with the filesystem. I'm migrating from sendmail (POP3)/OpenWebMail to a new box that has postfix/dovecot/squirrelmail. I'm thinking I need to either write a script to handle it or find one already written. It looks like the mail's stored in the same format as squirrelmail's mail, but when I moved a test mailbox over, it didn't appear automatically... I looked in the Folders section and it had it available as a subscription. So instead of clicking the "subscribe" button I tried just adding the line to the .subscriptions file in the user's directory and reloaded the web page. It caused this error when I clicked the new folder ("Sent2") from the left hand side nav bar: ERROR: Could not complete request. Query: SELECT "Sent2" Reason Given: Internal error occured. Error report written to server log. [2006-06-23 19:21:20] chris. Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
