[Dovecot] Account Migration Tool

[Daniel L. Miller]

Daniel L. Miller wrote:
> Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
>> * Stefan Onken <support at stonki.de>:
>>  
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>    
>>>> goto http://www.linux-france.org/prj/imapsync/ and read the 
>>>> description
>>>> in the README file.
>>>> I've never tested this tool. But I think the description matches your
>>>> 'requirements'.
>>>>       
>>> I used to tool to convert dozen of email account with up to 9GB 
>>> each. No
>>> problem at all. Just do not forget to use the --subscribe option :)
>>>     
>>
>> Definitely our preferred tool. The last time we used it, we migrated 
>> 25.000+
>> accounts and yes, we enabled --subscribe on the second run too... ;)
>>
>> We also disabled syncing shared folders from the Exchange Servers; they
>> weren't needed on the new system.
>>
>> It's also nice to have a wrapper script that tracks exit codes and 
>> writes
>> errors to a log, so you can attend them once the first run has passed 
>> through.
>>
>> p at rick
>>   
> Thanks all.  Sounds like something we should link to in the wiki along 
> with some Dovecot specific examples.
>
And of course...it was already there!!  Need to add a few more fireworks 
around it - looks like something every mail admin should have in his 
toolkit.

-- 
Daniel