Advice needed: Migration Dovecot to Kolab Cyrus.

[Winfried Ritsch]

Hello,

 I set up a new Kolab 3.0 on Debian wheezy and I am quite a newbie on this. 
(Thanks for this work, I installed it on a fresh server setup quite nicely and  
it is working quite well, with some problems, not urgent needed.) Now I want 
to switch to the new server:


 What tools to use for migration of maildirs from exim/dovecot to Kolab 3 ?


Here my try:

 - I created same users on Kolab, adjusting the uid so login should be the 
same,

 I used imapsync from Fedora free source: https://fedorahosted.org/imapsync/

 with options: 
  --tls1 --tls2 --syncinternaldates --delete2  --noexpunge --subscribe

  (no --delete2folders since it would erase default folders of Kolab)

Since mailboxes are quite big, I did a pre-sync during running system. after 
that during switching (exim mailserver down, firewall blocked imap) I did a new 
sync: 
  - some of mails where doubled, folder structure was broken. 

on this new imapsync a lot of mails are copied again, which will take more 
then 8 hours, to long for a mailserver downtime.

So now I switched back to old sever before completing. 

Like stated before: Has anyone a hint how it could be done more smoothly ?

mfg
 Winfried Ritsch

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