How To Install Imapsync
Contents.Overview. Data Type(s) Migrated: Mail. Recommended for: XMission Zimbra customers with xmbase mailboxes, or customers migrating from non-Exchange mail servers. Some technical proficiency required (command line-based, requires Linux, Mac OS X or cygwin)This can be the most robust method of migrating, though it's only limited to mail. IMAPSync will compare source and destination hosts, and copy any messages not on the destination server from the host server. You can run this multiple times and generally not result in any duplicate messages in the destination mailbox.It is a command line-based perl script, so it requires either some sort of unix-based system or cygwin (or other compatible Perl setup on Windows).
Consequently, it does require some level of technical proficiency to be used.Previously, this was normal free OSS software, but the author has since started requiring payment for it. Yet, not only was it previously released under an open source license, but it continues to be licensed as OSS with the newer paid versions, so you can still get reasonably up-to-date versions legally. If you wish to purchase the software, you can get a windows executable. All others will want to install from the git repository. IMAPSync Homepage:. Open source repository:You will want to read the documentation and determine what commands are appropriate to your situation, but the general idea is that you provide the source host/user/password, the destination host/user/password, imapsync logs into both and transfers the mail.
These are delineated as host1/user1/password1 and host2/user2/password2 in the command line options.Here is an example IMAPSync command:imapsync -host1 mail.somemailserver.com -user1 someusername -password1 somepassword -host2 zimbra.xmission.com -user2 accountonzimbra@domain.com -password2 zimbrapassword -syncinternaldates -subscribeIMAP Admin Account LoginsAlso note that many mail servers (including XMission's Zimbra servers) support the ability for an admin account to auth as a user. This is very useful when migrating an entire domain, as it frees you from needing to know each individual user's password. IMAPSync supports this with the 'authuser' command.
Imap To Imap Migration Tool
Imapsync is a really useful script from syncing imap mail boxes. I used it when migrating from Zimbra to Google Mail. I wanted to install imapsync from source on my Ubuntu server but found the instructions a little ridiculous. The start of the instructions are:Go into the directory imapsync-x.xx and read the INSTALL file.You’re already reading the INSTALL file.Here is what I did it:1) and extract it.2) Install a few dependences:aptitude install libmail-imapclient-perl libdigest-md5-file-perl libterm-readkey-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libdigest-hmac-perl makepasswd3) In the source folder run:make -n installmake installYou should then have a working imapsync. To test it try:imapsync -version.