[NBLUG/talk] Mail migration

Steve srj at adnd.com
Mon Dec 1 10:57:00 PST 2003


Ahh, Ya one box is running imap, the other is not.  What
this project is, is that I am retiring a very very old FreeBSD box and
replacing it with a shiney new debian box =)

THe BSD box doesn't have much in the way of tools.. I had ot install rsync
by hand and it actualy compiled ok haha.  I don't want to deal
with installing services on this box at this point.

I decided to rsync it.. doing it now.. its not going to slow.. but it is
slow =) 

-Steve



On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:35:24AM -0800, Kyle Rankin wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:29:21AM -0800, Steve wrote:
> > I'm building a new mail server, and wanted to know if anyone had any ideas
> > of a smooth and quick way to migrate stored mail from the old mail server.
> > 
> > The new server has spamm filtering and such, but the old one didnt.  Was
> > wondering would it be best to write a script that will re-deliver the mail
> > from teh old to the new via smtp so the spam filters get activated,
> > or would rsyncing the mailboxes just be the best solution?
> > 
> > I'm dealing with approx. 2500 mail boxes here. rsync seems to be
> > slow.. and I owuld have to stop smtp on both boxes while the
> > rsyn was running to prevent any problems..
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > -Steve
> > 
> > ----
> >       "Knowing others is wisdom, knowing your self is Enlightenment."
> >                                                    -- Lao-Tzu
> 
> If both machines are using IMAP you can use a nice little tool called
> "offlineimap" to sync between the two machines.  You can find it here:
> 
> http://gopher.quux.org:70/devel/offlineimap/
> 
> Note that it is also apt-gettable if you are using Debian.
> 
> I've used this tool on my laptop to sync up with my IMAP server so that I
> can keep a local copy of certain maildirs for reference when I don't have a
> net connection.  While normally it is used to sync from a remote IMAP
> server to a local maildir, it also supports syncing from one IMAP server to
> another IMAP server directly.
> 
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