[TriLUG] Cyrus IMAP HowTo

[Tanner Lovelace]

Great!  Glad you got it working.  Also, thanks for the link.  Those look like 
interesting scripts.  One thing that makes me cautious about them, though 
is the statement:

"It is worth noting that these scripts do not migrate IMAP flags on 
messages, including the Seen state of the messages. We decided 
that it wasn't worth the effort of trying to figure out how to do this."

The script I had mentioned, imapsync (
http://freshmeat.net/projects/imapsync/ ),
provides a solution if you need your imap flags preserved (those are what
determines if a message has been read, unread, deleted, etc...), but it
does require you to run two imap servers (old and new).  It also has the
added advantage of being a true synchronization so you can stop it 
in the middle and restart without any problems at all and you won't get
duplicate messages in your mailbox.

It's definitely nice to have options though. :-)

So, out of curiosity, how do you like cyrus?  What prompted you to 
switch?

Cheers,
Tanner


On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:11:29 -0500, Jeff Groves <jgroves at krenim.org> wrote:
> Tanner:
> 
> Thanks for the help.  The collection of Perl scripts that I found uses a machination of
> various scripts and formail to get the message files into the right format, and then it runs
> the reconstruct as you suggested below.
> 
> Someone spent a lot of time writing this script and one I got my head around it it finally
> worked properly.  I had the message files being dumped in completely the wrong place.  Once I
> figure it out is ran really nicely and brought over all of my folders.
> 
> If anyone is interested, the scripts that I used came from here:
> 
>      http://www.onid.orst.edu/docs/technical/cyrusmigration.shtml
> 
> Jeff G.
> 
> Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> > Generally, with a closed box system like Cyrus, you shouldn't be copying
> > the files directly to the directory their in.  In addition to the
> > files themselves,
> > Cyrus has indices of everything there.  If those indices aren't there, it won't
> > show the files.  Based on that, I'd suggest, if you can, transfering your
> > files using imap instead of directly.  I've used a script called "imapsync"
> > very successfully to transfer several gigabytes of mail data from a WU-IMAP
> > server to a Cyrus server.
> >
> > If you can't use imap to transfer the files, you might try this.  No guarantees
> > that it will work.
> >
> > Try running "cyradm --user username imap.server.com" (filling in appropriate
> > values, of course).  From there, type the command "reconstruct" (I don't
> > think you give it any parameters, but check the help just to be sure).  I
> > believe that *should* rebuild the indices but if your files aren't correctly
> > setup (Cyrus uses MH mail format, *not* Maildir) you may be out of luck.
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Tanner
> >
> > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:25:34 -0500 (EST), Jeff Groves
> > <jgroves at krenim.org> wrote:
> >
> >>I just upgraded(?) my Red Hat 7.1 machine to Fedora Core 2, and have been
> >>fighting with Cyrus IMAP ever since then.
> >>
> >>I've worked my way from zilch to being able to log on and see that I have
> >>folders but no email in the folders.
> >>
> >>I found a collection of perl scripts that I attempted to modify to migrate
> >>my folders and email from my mail format the pine and Washington IMAP
> >>could read to the Cyrus IMAP incarnation.  Unfortunately, I've only gotten
> >>to the point where I can get it to create the folder and import the mail
> >>messages in to the correct directory, but Cyrus refuses to acknowledge
> >>that there are any messages there.
> >>
> >>If anyone has a HowTo for Cyrus IMAP that is more informative than the
> >>pathetic ones that I've found by Googling, I'd appreciate seeing it.
> >>
> >>This is for my and my wife's personal email usage and I'm not making any
> >>money off of this gig... just trying to get out of the dog house for
> >>"breaking" the email.
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>
> >>Jeff G.
> >>
> >>========
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