[SOLVED] migrating one account into another

[fschloegl]

Hi,

my problem is, that i want to migrate a whole account from our zimbra server, into another (existing) account.

aaa@ccc.com -> bbb@ccc.com

bbb@ccc.com has data inside.

Is there any possibility to get all the date from aaa@ccc.com to bbb@ccc.com? The only way that I know is with imapcopy, but this will not migrate everything.

Thx for your help
Florian

[mtorres]

Hi, not sure if this is what you are looking for but could you export all the data from aaa@ccc.com and then import all of it to bbb@ccc.com using the import/export tab under preferences in the zimbra web client?

[fschloegl]

thx for this hint, I think this will work, but do anyone know an other possibility directly from the console or the admin interface?

[alexkelly]

I have done the following from a backup, where I have a restored_user@domain.com, and I want to pull specific pieces of mail into the user@domain.com. It seems that it should work for different accounts.

For the account I want to get mail out of, I do a zmmailbox command to get all the messages in inbox with

zmmboxsearch -m aaa@domain.com -l 100000 -q "in:inbox" -d /tmp/aaa/

That will dump everything that matches the query "in:inbox" to /tmp/aaa, but you can put any query that works in the web client in that option, so you are not limited
Then you can loop through everything in that directory and inject the message into the other mailbox with something like

for x in $(ls -1 /tmp/aaa/)
do
echo "am /Inbox /tmp/aaa/$x" >>/tmp/feedfile
done

Then you can run that feedfile into the bbb account with

zmmailbox -z -m bbb@domain.com </tmp/feedfile

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[fschloegl]

thanks for this hint, this should work.

// flo