On Dec 1, 2007 6:42 AM, Fredrik Jervfors <jervfors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Michael Borchers": > > > I am leaving my current provider who offered me a dedicated server so far, > > so I had full access to the email folders. > > > > I am changing to a new provider where I do not have access. > > > > Is there a possibility to take all the old emails and folders with me > > or "simply" copying the folders to a different place in my new root so > > squirrelmail can access it there? > > Hi Michael. > > If you have IMAP access besides SquirrelMail I'd recommend you to use some > other tool, such as IMAPCopy [1], to do the migration. IMAP copying tools > are available for various platforms, so use a search engine to find one > that suits your requirements. If you don't have the right ports open, ask > the providers and they might be able to help you out. Come to think of it, > they might even be able to do the work for you if you ask. FYI, If it's just you (no other users), you can just use a tool like Thunderbird -- access both IMAP accounts with it and drag and drop the mail between the accounts. > SquirrelMail can use the Archive Mail [2] plugin to download mails from > your server, but I don't know of any easy way to get those mails uploaded > to another server. SquirrelMail was simply not built with migration > features in mind. It should be possible to create a plugin for migrating > mails, but there's no existing plugin doing that. > > If you can access the mails at the old server though POP3, you might use > the Mail Fetch plugin (bundled with SquirrelMail) at the new server to get > the mails, but I guess this won't handle folders very well meaning that > you'll have to do a lot of moving mails to and from the inbox in both > ends. As far as I know this plugin doesn't support IMAP, only POP3. > > Use the SquirrelMail Addressbook Import-Export [3] plugin to migrate the > address book. > > Sincerely, > Fredrik > > [1] http://home.arcor.de/armin.diehl/imapcopy/imapcopy.html > [2] http://squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=121 > [3] http://squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=29 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
