If it possible to manipulate imap accounts from the client side with certain account
Dear all, I have an perl script to archive imap mailboxes from the client side. The script uses Perl::LDAP modules from cpan. It is succeed to archive all my old mails to new mailboxes, such as mail_2007 and mail_2008 and so on. The question now is, i don't know other peoples' password and well even if i know the passwords, it is much more frustrated to change an account and password for every account. So, i wonder if it is possible that one mail account can access all other mail accounts just as the account owner. Then, this way, i just need to run the script once and do archive on all account in the same domain. Best wishes, Zhu Zhixin -- Real SoftService Baiyan Building Unit 406B Beisihuan Zhong Road No.238 Mobile: 150 1030 1841 Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
Re: If it possible to manipulate imap accounts from the client side with certain account
> Dear all, > > I have an perl script to archive imap mailboxes from the client > side. The script uses Perl::LDAP modules from cpan. > > It is succeed to archive all my old mails to new mailboxes, such as > mail_2007 and mail_2008 and so on. > > The question now is, i don't know other peoples' password and well > even if i know the passwords, it is much more frustrated to change an > account and password for every account. > >So, i wonder if it is possible that one mail account can access all > other mail accounts just as the account owner. Then, this way, i just > need to run the script once and do archive on all account in the same > domain. Hi, You may want to check the "proxyservers" option in imapd.conf. Looks like what you are looking for. Regards, Simon Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
Re: If it possible to manipulate imap accounts from the client side with certain account
Simon Matter wrote: > > Hi, > > You may want to check the "proxyservers" option in imapd.conf. Looks like > what you are looking for. > Thanks very much. For proxyservers, i have done some test on it and final didn't get any idea on howto use it. It seems that no documents about proxyservers. If you have experience on this, please help! Thanks, Zhu Zhixin Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
Re: If it possible to manipulate imap accounts from the client side with certain account
> Simon Matter wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> You may want to check the "proxyservers" option in imapd.conf. Looks >> like >> what you are looking for. >> > > Thanks very much. For proxyservers, i have done some test on it and > final didn't get any idea on howto use it. > > It seems that no documents about proxyservers. > > If you have experience on this, please help! I don't remember exactly how I have used it. It was to copy mailboxes from cyrus-imapd to another system using imapsync. It was something like - create a proxy user, in our case called "proxy". I don't remember whether it needed a mailbox or maybe we only created it in the auth db. - add "proxyservers: proxy" to imapd.conf Now, with an IMAP client, you can authenticate as user "proxy" with proxy's password but then login as the target user. That means you don't need the target users password. With imapsync that was done using imapsync --authuser1 proxy --user1 buddy ... I hope someone on the list can tell you how to do this in perl. Regards, Simon Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
