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IMAP question - Moving servers and mail.
Hi
I've moved all my domains to a new server (Perfect Ubuntu 5.10) except for one that is still on my old server. The client uses IMAP exclusively so I need to migrate all his existing mail to the new server. Can this be done? I've Googled extensively and more confused than ever. Any pointers will be greatly appreciated. Regards Brenton |
Does both servers use Maildir?
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Hi till
I'm not sure, this is the info I have The old server was running virtual hosting using mysql and the user mail directory is: /srv/mail/vhosts/domain.com/someuser@domain.com/ content of directory is: Code:
drwx------ 9 postfix postfix 304 Jul 25 2005 ./var/www/www.domain.com/user/web7_someuser/Maildir/ content of directory is: Code:
drwx------ 5 web7_someuser web7 4096 2006-03-21 01:00 .I've been looking at imapsync but am still a little confused. I've been reading this thread: http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=835 Regards Brenton |
Okay, after playing around with some testing domains I found that this works.
Code:
imapsync --host1 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx --user1 user@domain.com --password1 xxxxxxxx \xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the older server IP number and yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy is the new (ISPConfig - Ubuntu 5.10) server IP number user@domain.com is the user login on the old server and web6_username is the user login on the new server. I tried IP numbers rather that the domain (mail.domain.com) as the DNS records have already been updated to point to the new server on my test accounts/domains, but not yet on the client domain. This will allow me to apply for DNS updates and migration over the weekend while client is not inclind to check mail. I've not done the client mail yet, as he has a number of custom folders and need to see if those will be moved across as well. But for a basic migration, the above worked fine for me. I hope this works helps somebody else. Regards Brenton |
As both servers are using courier Imap, it might also work if you simply copy the maildir content to the new server and change the owner to the email user.
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Hi till.
I've used imapsync and it has worked, all mail was copied with no visible error. Will have to wait and see what the client says. I did think of just doing a straight copy, but I was a little worried that the file naming convention between the two servers are very diferent. eg: new server Code:
1144425372.M273522P31666V0000000000000301I0013937C_538.hostname.domainname.com,S=1588:2,SCode:
1144172658.V302I282df.hostname:2,SThank you very much for your support. Brenton |
trying the same, but synchronizing to google apps:
imapsync --host1 85.214.146.68 --user1 postmaster@mydomain.de --password1 Pass1 \ --host2 imap.gmail.com --user2 mygoogleappslogin --password2 Pass2 --port2 993 --ssl2 and all that happens is this: --host2 option must be used, run /usr/bin/imapsync --help for help any ideas? |
If you write this command in one line, you must remove the backslash (\) from it.
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how silly of me :-( that was the problem indeed.
Now I get this: Host imap.gmail.com says it has NO CAPABILITY for AUTHENTICATE CRAM-MD5 I then tried --authmech2 PLAIN and after that failed too --authmech2 LOGIN - none works. Anyone knows what authmech to try with GMAIL's IMAP servers? |
sorry guys, any more help on this?
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