I have a situation where a user needs her old email copied from an mbox into her new Cyrus account. Easy enough; however, she's a remote user and her auth is via SASL. So, it would potentially require me to either 1) get her password, or 2) reset the password on Cyrus so I could use "imapcopy" (or some other tool).
Assuming the mbox is a normal mailbox file you could use an IMAP client
that knows about proxy authorization: authenticate as an IMAP admin (cyrus) and authorize as the user in question, so you could perform all
transfer operations under the user privileges.
I know at some point on the list somebody suggested using mbxcopy from
imapd-tools (UW tools, requires c-client from their site also).
mboxcopy knows about proxy authorization and trasfers from any format
c-client understands (mbox, pop3, imap) to other format.
I have been using it (a modified version which included the cyrus password) to backup the imap mailboxes to regular flat mbox format.
I don't recall if somebody on the list posted or just said that
he patched mboxcopy to get the admin password via an environment variable rather than hardcodeit into the program (like I did).
There must be an easier way to do this that I've not seen... ?
I must admin it sounds simpler than it actually is to implement, you could just change the password temporarily and restore it back with the original sasldb2.
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