* On 2002.04.02, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
* "Simon White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 01-Apr-02 at 18:57, Robert Chien ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote :
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm in the process of writing a CGI/Perl script to move
> > folders from one IMAP server to another IMAP server. I would
>
> Err... why are you using Mutt? Why not just set up an NFS share or FTP
> access, and just *copy* the files from one server to the other?
You answered this yourself....
> Or is there a specific reason you need to use an MUA to do it? I can't
> think of one good reason, unless of course you don't have anything but
> IMAP access to each server
to either server, you mean.
> in which case you're not going to be doing it
> for a whole heap of users, are you?
Why not?
I've been in this situation (or, more accurately, postured a similar on
behalf of my users). With access to one hierarchy of mboxes, I use a
command like this to transfer them all to an IMAP server:
cd .../path/to/folders
find . -type f -print | while read folder; do
directory=`dirname $folder`
folder=`basename $folder`
mutt -f $directory/$folder -e "push
'<tag-pattern>~A<enter><tag-prefix><copy-message><kill-line>imap://SERVER/$directory/$folder<enter><enter>PASSWORD<enter><exit>'"
echo
echo "$directory/$folder is transferred."
done
It's trivial to extend that to handle multiple users, if you know
their passwords. If you don't know their passwords, then it's probably
possible to arrange a back-channel transfer not involving IMAP directly.
For doing this between two servers *neither* of which you have access
to, I don't see a way to automate it, since there's no direct means of
getting the folder tree structure in mutt and passing it to a script.
But if you can use another IMAP tool (or cobble your own) to get that
list, you can use a similar approach.
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-D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] NSIT University of Chicago
