Account sync between remote zimbra servers

[MobiusNZ]

Hi there,

We've got a customer who is wanting to synchronize their mailboxes on their local zimbra server to our hosted zimbra services. Basically they have really unreliable net so when remote they'd come through to us instead of their own server, and still have access to their full account.

Is this possible?

[Galiral]

i have a problem similar to yours, and i'm looking for a solution similar to imapsyc (which requires you to know all user password) and that works on network edition.
still found nothing

[Galiral]

Imapsync has a feature --authuser that sufficient to sync between mail server without know each account password.

Below is an example of imapsync command using --authuser :

imapsync --host1 192.168.10.1 --user1 $ACCOUNT --authuser1 admin --password1 passwordadminserver1 --authmech1 PLAIN --host2 192.168.10.2 --user2 $ACCOUNT --authuser2 admin --password2 passwordadminserver2

As you see, you must know the admin password (global admin) for each server for --authuser.

and can i run it on a regular basis, for example like every 15 minutes?

[MobiusNZ]

I need to sync the entire mailbox- mail, contacts, calendars, briefcase, documents, settings etc

[brian]

Has your customer considered using zimbra desktop. It will solve the offline issue and remove the need having to manage 2 zimbra servers.

[MobiusNZ]

Yeah, I'm thinking thats probably the best way - it is a bit of an odd request!

[Galiral]

Imapsync has a feature --authuser that sufficient to sync between mail server without know each account password.

Below is an example of imapsync command using --authuser :

imapsync --host1 192.168.10.1 --user1 $ACCOUNT --authuser1 admin --password1 passwordadminserver1 --authmech1 PLAIN --host2 192.168.10.2 --user2 $ACCOUNT --authuser2 admin --password2 passwordadminserver2

As you see, you must know the admin password (global admin) for each server for --authuser.

This worked for me! now i just get error messages when i run the script and there are contacts to sync

[Contacts]                          -> [Contacts]                         
- msg Contacts/282 couldn't append  (Subject:[=?utf-8?Q?test?=]) to folder Contacts: 48 NO APPEND failed

don't know why the contacts won't work