Transferring imap email from hosting service

[tonyross]

I am planning to migrate my email service inhouse from everyone.net I need a way to transfer all existing email and folders to the new server. Their XRC API does not provide for this. I'm assuming that I need to put a server emulator in front of their email service which could log the usernames and passwords. Then I could use a script such as imapsync to do the actual transfer (it requires username and password). Does anyone have knowledge of a program to do this or a better approach to accomplish this migration? There is no help from the vendor of course.

Thanks much for any help or links,

Tony

 

[nobaloney]

Tony,

I'm guessing this has nothing to do with DirectAdmin. I eventually decided to run local imap on kmail (running a linux desktop) because kmail runs native Maildir.

If you decide to go this route:

Then just set up local folders on your local system and set the folders to replicate on server and locally. All the email will eventually (time depends on how much email) end up on your local machine.

From there do with it what you want. While it's already in Maildir format, unless you're going to keep it in Kmail you'll probably have to delete the index files and let whatever system you're using locally reindex. That will cost you your metadata such as read, forwarded, replied, etc., but it shouldn't cost you read vs unread, as that, in Maildir is dependent on cur directory structure vs new directory structure.

This thread is now closed; continued in post #8 here.

Jeff