imapsync to a shared folder

[Nathanael D. Noblet]

On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 16:01 -0600, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 15:39 -0600, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
> > So I received a reply from Victor Silva who pointed me at 
> > 
> > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/2007-February/025173.html
> > 
> > Using that I finally found the right incantation I think.
> > 
> >  imapsync --host1 HOST1... --host2 HOST2 --prefix2 "Shared
> > Folders/shared/secretary/" --regextrans2 's/INBOX//'
> > 
> > It seems to be working - the one thing I'm not sure about is if it now
> > ignores what was in the HOST1 users' inbox. I'm hoping it drops the
> > messages in the INBOX into Shared Folders/shared/secretary, but for now
> > its seems to be transferring the sub folders properly.
> 
> So that transfers everything except the contents of the INBOX. 
> 
> Could not create folder [Shared Folders/shared/secretary/] from [INBOX]:
> 14 NO Mailbox already exists
> 
> It seems that it thinks this is an error and then doesn't transfer the
> mail when really its not an error it just tried to create something that
> already existed? I wonder if that's a bug in imapsync or not but you'd
> think it would be able to detect the existence of a folder. That's
> pretty crucial to its main function so I wonder what's going wrong here.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?

So it seems it has to do with trailing '/' characters. I need to run the
command twice (or be way better at regexp perhaps).

I logged in manually to the imap server to see what it would do with 

A1 STATUS "Shared Folders/shared/secretary" (MESSAGES UNSEEN RECENT)
vs
A1 STATUS "Shared Folders/shared/secretary/" (MESSAGES UNSEEN RECENT)

The first command completes successfully, the second is the folder
doesn't exist. So because of that I need to run one command to sync just
the inbox with

--prefix2 "Shared Folders/shared/secretary" --regextrans2 's/INBOX//'
--folder INBOX

and the other

--prefix2 "Shared Folders/shared/secretary/" --regextrans2 's/INBOX//'

to get any subfolders. Seems to work now, if there are suggestions on
how to make that work properly in once command I'm all ears otherwise
I'll just run it twice.

-- 
Nathanael