Hi there!

I have an old mailserver based on QMAIL with Courier IMAP Server. The new MailServer is based on Kerio MailServer 6.2


All user accounts are imported in Kerio from .csv file with passwords.


The old server has about 500 user mailboxes.

I did following commands on both servers:

Old server:

1. telnet oldserver 143
telnet localhost 143
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2005 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information.


a01 login username password
a01 OK LOGIN Ok.

a02 list "*" ""
a02 OK LIST completed


a03 list "" "*"
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Drafts"
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Trash"
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Sent"
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Spam"
* LIST (\Marked \HasChildren) "." "INBOX"
a03 OK LIST completed




Now I did same commands on

New MailServer

telnet newmailserver 143

a01 login username password
a01 OK LOGIN completed

a02 list "*" ""
* LIST (\Noselect) "/" ""
a02 OK LIST completed

a03 list "" "*"
* LIST () "/" "INBOX"
* LIST () "/" "Deleted Items"
* LIST () "/" "Drafts"
* LIST () "/" "Junk E-mail"
* LIST () "/" "Sent Items"
* LIST (\Noselect) "/" "Public Folders"
* LIST (\Noselect) "/" "Archive Folders"
a03 OK LIST completed





The problem is:


How to copy all users email from their old mailserver to new mailserver without making changes in directory structure of the new mailserver?

imapsync is pretty flexible, so it should be possible. Check out this entry in the FAQ (http://www.linux-france.org/prj/imapsync/FAQ):

Q. Is it possible to synchronize all messages from one server to
another whithout recreating the folder structure and the target server.

I was looking the page you show me. But I am new to Imapsync.


I just want to know what is the exact command of Imapsync I need to execute to do my job.


I tried the command:

imapsync --host1 oldserver --host2 newserver --user1 olduser --user2 newuser --password1 oldpassword --password2 newpassword --nosyncacls --subscribe --syncinternaldates --noauthmd5 --sep1 / --prefix1 / --sep2 / --prefix2 ""


It copies only email from admin to admin and creates new folders on my new server, which I don't need.


my old server has "." as you see on my question, the new server has "/"