On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 12:53:15 -0800 (PST) Joseph Tam <jtam.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Davide Marchi" <dan...@msw.it> writes: > > >> UW-IMAP's mailutil, imapsync, YippieMove and Larch. > > Whatever you use, *don't* use UW-IMAP's mailutil unless you got lots > of time to kill. It is dreadfully slow -- I used it to export some of > my users' mailboxes to Gmail or other remote mail servers, and I could > almost cut&paste the messages faster. > > Like Aki said, if you have the same mailbox format and FS access on > both sides, rsync is much simpler. You can also try exporting the > old mailboxes via NFS, and with some artful symlinks, march through > your user mailboxes replacing the symlinks with the instantiated > local copies and have almost zero downtime. > > Joseph Tam <jtam.h...@gmail.com> Another possibility is to use an email client like Claws-Mail, which is very fast, create two accounts: One for the old IMAP, one for the new one, and just copy trees. SteveT Steve Litt November 2017 featured book: Troubleshooting: Just the Facts http://www.troubleshooters.com/tjust