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Old 11-02-2006, 05:19 AM
bertie_uk bertie_uk is offline
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Lightbulb Guide to Migrate from Sendmail/Pop3/IMAP to Ubuntu Zimbra

I've just followed the Ubuntu installation guide and then proceeded to migrate my mail from Redhat Sendmail/Pop3/IMAP to Ubuntu 6.06 Server.

There is info in these forums how to do it but scattered about.

Here's a quick migration guide:

You'll need to have IMAP running on your old server. In my case it was present but disabled.

On zimbra server, as root

1) apt-get install build-essential

2) apt-get install make

3) apt-get install libio-socket-ssl-perl

4) Get Mail-IMAPClient-2.2.9 from http://search.cpan.org/~djkernen/Mail-IMAPClient-2.2.9/

5) Gunzip & untar, and follow instructions in Mail-IMAP/INSTALL to install

6) Download TermReadKey-2.30 from http://search.cpan.org/~jstowe/TermReadKey-2.30/

7) Gunzip & untar TermReadKey and do same as Mail-IMAP to install (perl Makefile.PL, make, make test, make install)

8) Get imapsync from http://www.linux-france.org/prj/imapsync/dist/

9) Gunzip & untar imapsync

10) in imapsync dir, use the following command:

./imapsync --nosyncacls --syncinternaldates --host1 old_mail_server --user1 old_server_username --password1 oldserverpwd --host2 new_zimbra_server --user2 new_zimbra_username --password2 new_zimbra_pwd --authmech1 LOGIN --authmech2 LOGIN

You can add --folder INBOX to only sync the inbox folder. And there are other options too, ./imapsync to display the help

Yes you need to run imapsync for each user, but this can be scripted.

Bertie

Last edited by bertie_uk : 12-23-2006 at 04:34 PM.
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