mail migration

Hi there,

i installed recently ISPconfig3 on ubuntu server. It's supposed to be a mail server. I need to migrate mail account information: logins (usernames), passwords, geckos, homedirs, mailboxes form old server to ISPconfig3. The old server is debian with user logins stored in /etc/passwd and passwords in /etc/shadow. Their mail is stored in mailbox format in /var/mail/<user>, so needs to be converted to maildir also. Some of users use opnewebmail as webmail and moved some emails to folders created by openwebmail software.

I need to move all user emails to thier ispconfig Maildir's.
Is there a way to create mailboxes in ISP config using a script or in any automated way?

Maybe someone have a clue if this is possible at all or maybe some stuff can be migrated

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regards
Bartek

 

No, not yet. The remoting framework is still under development.

Migrating your setup will not be easy as ispconfig uses the email address as username for smtp/pop3/imap and not a username. The passwords should not be that problem as ispconfig uses also crypt passwords. To convert mbox format to maildir, take a look at the script mb2md which is available for most linux distributions as pacakge or google for it to get the sources.

 

i tried mb2md earlier, but now tested it and results are nice
i'm lucky because both /etc/shadow and 'mail_user' table password are MD5 hashed and can be migrated
The problem with usernames/mailboxes remains. Looks like i must add users manually. That's a bit trouble with 600 accounts
Migrating folders from openwebmail will be even worse

thanks anyway

 

Would you please explain howto do it Till?
I have manually setup all sites, email and clients as in ISPC2 so all is installed new in ISPC3 now I only want to copy the passwords of the mail accounts if possible.

TIA