[TriLUG] Retrieve emails from old server

[Aaron Schrab via TriLUG]

At 12:34 -0400 22 Jul 2019, John Mitchell via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>I admin (web site & email) a site for a small company. I just moved
>everything to a new provider for them, we're up and running ok (the old
>provider had a meltdown).
>  My question is how can I pull the emails from the old server? I have all
>the passwords and names, I'm just not familiar with a process to pull them.
>I considered using a client (like claws-mail), setting it up for one user,
>connecting and receiving. Is this feasible or a better way is to do???

If you have IMAP access for both the old and new systems, there are a 
number of utilities available to copy messages between those. A few that 
I found from a quick search through the Debian archive:

https://www.offlineimap.org/
http://isync.sourceforge.net/
http://mailsync.sourceforge.net/
https://git.guilhem.org/interimap/

I used to use that first one quite heavily, including contributing a few 
patches for it. But, that was a long time ago; somewhere around the turn 
of the century. My use for that was also quite a bit different.
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