Migration from cyrus IMAPD 2.2.3/Web-cyradm to kolab

[Cristian Livadaru]

On 8 Jan, 2010, at 17:02 , Gunnar Wrobel wrote:

> Quoting Hermann Himmelbauer <dusty at qwer.tk>:
> 
>> Hi,
>> Currently, I use the Cyrus IMAPD, version 2.2.3 together with "Web-cyradm", a
>> backend similar to Kolab. Now I think about migrating this server to Kolab.
>> 
>> I estimate that there are no conversion scripts available from web-cyradm to
>> Kolab, so I probably will create the email accounts + domains by hand. I
>> don't have that many accounts, so it won't be so much trouble.
>> 
>> For migrating the mail data, I can think of two ways:
>> 
>> 1) Connect to both servers via an IMAP E-Mail client (e.g. KMail) and simply
>> drag+drop the mails. This should work, however, it's quite cumbersome and
>> error-prone, as I could easily miss some data in the process.
>> 
>> 2) AFAIK, Kolab also uses the Cyrus IMAPD, so probably it's possible to simply
>> copy it over in some way?
> 
> That might be possible. Depends a little bit on the configuration of your old server. You'd probably also have to run cyrreconstruct to fix the folders.
> 
> But if you really only have a few accounts then I'd also suggest imapsync.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Gunnar


Maybe my old howto can help. Didn't use it in quite a while. But used to work great when I wrote it. 

http://livadaru.net/cristian/wiki/index.php/CyrusMove

Cris