Hi, Yes, it can be done without any problems. If you have mails on the target server you need to preserve, look at something like Dsync (probably better but read documentation carefully), or Imapsync if you haven't got shell access to the servers. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of David Mehler Sent: 05 November 2011 14:25 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] migrating imap messages to new server Hello, Thanks. On both servers the messages are in maildir format. Will the copying remove any attributes like received date and time, any flags set etc. Thanks. Dave. On 11/5/11, Andrew Hodgson <andrew@hodgsonfamily.org> wrote:
Hi.
Actually it probably is just a copy procedure. There are usually two types of mail store format, maildir, where each message is in a separate file, and MBOX, where each message is in a mailbox file. You can copy the files from the old to the new server.
Andrew.
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On 5 Nov 2011, at 00:57, "David Mehler" <dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I've got two imap servers one old, one new. The old one has messages on it that i'd like to get on to the new one for several users. Both servers are using open source software, postfix for the MTA and Dovecot for the imap server. If anyone knows how to pull this off I'd like to know about it. I would try copying them,but doubt it's that simple, I want to preserve their dates, times, and attributes.
Thanks. Dave.
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