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Questions tagged [imapsync]

imapsync is en email IMAP tool for syncing, copying, migrating and archiving email mailboxes between two IMAP servers, one way, and without duplicates.

Question directly related to imapsync installation, usage, or problems can have this tag. Questions about imap transfers also.

To learn more, imapsync sites are https://imapsync.lamiral.info/ and https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync

IMAP, the Internet Message Access Protocol, is described at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Message_Access_Protocol

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The PID of a bash child proccess (imapsync) - how do you get it?

Can any one tell me how to get the PID of a command executed in bash. E.g. I have a bash script that runs imapsync. When the script is killed the imapsync process does not always get killed, so I'd like to be able to identify the PID of imapsync…
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Imap proxy with message cache

Does an imap proxy with full message list and message body caching exist? I see two possible variations, one with on-demand caching (user clicks on a mailbox and a message list is fetched from "master" and cached for next click from another mail…
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Sync all mails into one folder on new server using imapsync?

Is there a way to sync every mail from the old server into one single folder on the new server using imapsync? I can't find something relevant in the manual… Thanks in advance!
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Imapsync authentication login error

I have deployed my own domain over cPanel server and have used imapsync to backup my google app email to my local domain email. But i'm facing below error. I've switched on "Access for less secure apps" and enabled imap from gmail…
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Best practices to migrate IMAP mailboxes of thousands users using imapsync tool

I'm going to migrate IMAP mailboxes from Exchange 2013 to Cyrus with over 10k users. I plan to use imapsync as the tool for this. [root@centos65]# imapsync --version 1.644 I'm testing with 5 users and total 134 mails ( most are plaintext + one 9MB…
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Is there anyway to use rsa certificate authentication with imapsync

We have an off-site warm standby backup host that I wish to periodically synchronise our imap server with using imapsync. I would like to know if it is possible to use RSA certificate authentication for the --authuser1 to --authuser2 login. If I…
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imapsync - Authentication failed

I've deployed many Google Apps accounts and have used imapsync a number of times to migrate accounts to Google Apps. This time however, no matter what I try imapsync refuses to work claiming my credentials are incorrect - I've checked them time and…
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imapsync some mails are not transferred

Im using this code: imapsync --buffersize 8192000 --nosyncacls --subscribe --syncinternaldate --noauthmd5 --host1 old.server --user1 old.user --password1 123456 --host2 localhost --user2 user@domain.com --password2 123456 Result is: Initial…
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Imapsync doesn't sync unicode characters properly

I am using imapsync to migrate my e-mail account from a CPanel (courier) mailserver to a Debian/Dovecot one. The issue I am facing has to do with some folders that contain Unicode characters. For example a mailbox folder containing Greek characters…
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When is a mail relay needed?

Let me expand... I have a client who is unhappy with their current hosting situation. They want me to move their website and domain across to my hosting platform. I can do this. However I have realised that the company has: 1) A number of existing…
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imapsync or PHP to migrate email

I'm writing a simple web app with which people can migrate their email from one server to another. I've read about imapsync and tried it out. So far it works very good and seems to be a good solution. At the end of the migration it tells me it had…
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how can I imapsync from mailserver to my local machine

How can I use imapsync to fetch all the emails from the mailserver to my laptop? (with hierarchy of folders and all)? Do I have to have a mailserver setup on the other end too?
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How to incrementally migrate email accounts from qmail server to exchange server

The scenario is I need to migrate mailboxes from a qmail server to exchange server. I can use imapsync for that. But the issue is after the DNS change (i.e when DNS changed from old qmail server to new exchange server), there could be some mails in…
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Out of memory errors on imapsync

I'm currently running IMAPsync on CentOS and I'm getting out of memory errors. The problem I'm having is that I'm using the smallest mailbox as a test case, and it's not helping my confidence level to have out of memory errors on a 2G mailbox. I…
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Coexistence and migration to Dovecot

We have an environment with >5,000 mailboxes and we need to coexist/migrate the emails from one dovecot to another dovecot environment. The migration data includes: email (sync using imapsync) contacts calendars tasks Mail filter (inbox…
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