Re: [Micronet] Moving IMAP mailboxes between servers?

Ian Crew <icrew_at_berkeley.edu> writes:

>> I have a bunch of IMAP mailboxes that live on a server that
>> we'll be repurposing soon, so I'd like to move them to a
>> different IMAP server. Does anyone know of a tool that would
>> allow me to do this migration without going through the pain
>> of manually recreating each mailbox and dragging the messages
>> across? (It's quite a few mailboxes [~30] and messages
>> [20,000+], so doing it that way would be a major
>> pain.)

I concur with Ryan, imapsync is a very good tool for this sort of
work. We used it to move around 1.3 million mailboxes with 95 million
messages.

>> -I haven't yet decided where to move the mailboxes TO,
>> but I'm leaning towards GMail as that's the only free IMAP
>> service I know about (other suggestions welcome).

CalMail is a free IMAP service that can host your domain:

  https://calmail.berkeley.edu/docs/domainserv.html

Or if this isn't UC Berkeley related, you might consider
FastMail. They have a free (or pay to remove ads) service. They are
significant contributors to Cyrus, an open source IMAP server.

  http://fastmail.fm/

James E. Blair
Principal Email Systems Administrator
UC Berkeley - IST - IS - Collaboration Tools

 
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Received on Wed Jun 04 2008 - 17:26:14 PDT