[TriLUG] Retrieve emails from old server

[Dewey Hylton via TriLUG]

I used this when migrating mail between servers years ago and it worked well:

https://imapsync.lamiral.info/

It can be used as a backup tool for IMAP accounts as well as syncing from one
IMAP account to another, on the same or different IMAP server. The author also
suggests two from the list below for bidirectional syncing.

Just another option, but this one I can vouch for.

----- On Jul 22, 2019, at 2:25 PM, Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion trilug at trilug.org wrote:

> 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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