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imapsync started its life being a copy_ patch.The tool copy_ comes from the Mail-IMAPClient-2.1.3 perlmodule tarball source (in the examples/ directory of the tarball). The toolimapcp (written in python) could not help me because I had to verifyevery mailbox was well transferred and delete it after a goodtransfer.

Imapsync -help HISTORY I wrote imapsync because an enterprise (basystemes) paid me to installa new imap server without loosing huge old mailboxes located on a faraway remote imap server accessible by a low bandwith link. OPTIONS To get a description of each option just invoke: You can also just synchronize a mailbox A from another mailbox Bin case you just want to keep a ``live'' copy of B in A. You can decide to delete the messages from the source mailboxafter a successful transfer (it is a good feature when migrating).In that case, use the -delete -expunge1 options. imapsync can be memory hungry too,especially with large messages.

imapsync is CPU hungry so nice and renice commands can be a good help. You can stop the transfer at anytime and restart it later, imapsync is adapted to a badconnection. All flags arepreserved, unread will stay unread, read will stay read,deleted will stay deleted. Same headers, same message sizeand the transfer is done only once. Imapsync is the adequate tool because it reduces the amountof data transferred by not transferring a given message if itis already on both sides. We sometimes need to transfer mailboxes from one imap server toanother. Imapsync DESCRIPTION The command imapsync is a tool allowing incremental andrecursive imap transfer from one mailbox to another.Д«y default all folders are transfered, recursively. To get a description of each option just run imapsync like this : The freshmeat record is at SYNOPSIS imapsync

#SURGEMAIL MIGRATION INSTALL#

The INSTALL file is also at (for windows users) Go into the directory imapsync-x.xx and read the INSTALL file. Untar the tarball where you want (on Unix): You'll find a compressed tarball called imapsync-x.xx.tgz where x.xx is the version number. Imapsync is already available directly on the following distributions (at least): FreeBSD, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, NetBSD, Darwin, Mandriva. imapsync works fine under Windows 2000 (at least) and ActiveState's 5.8 Perl $Revision: 1.249 $ INSTALL imapsync works fine under any Unix OS with perl. More than 32 different IMAP server softwaressupported with success. Synchronise mailboxes between two imap servers. Index NAMEimapsync - IMAP synchronisation, sync, copy or migrationtool. IMAPSYNCSection: User Contributed Perl Documentation (1)

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