[Dovecot] Account Migration Tool

Daniel L. Miller dmiller at amfes.com
Thu Dec 10 23:52:46 EET 2009


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.

-- 
Daniel


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