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Topic: Migrating mail

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I am trying to migrate mail from a mac os x 10.6.8 (snow leopard) server to my new iredmail server. Does anyone have any suggestions or recommendations on how to do this. I have read up on imapsync but it does not appear to keep the flag info for read and unread messages. I would like to transfer the mail preserving the read and unread flags on messages. Any ideas or help on this would be great.

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2 Reply by ZhangHuangbin

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Re: Migrating mail

I have no experience of Mac OS X mail server, but imapsync does sync read/unread status. Please check the arguments/options you used for imapsync. Here's what i used during migrating mailboxes for a customer:

imapsync \                                                                 
        --useheader 'Message-Id' --useheader 'Message-ID' --useheader 'Received' \
        --subscribe \                                                           
        --authmech1 login --authmech2 login \                                   
        --host1 [server1] --user1 "[username1]" --password1 "[password1]" \
        --host2 [server2] --user2 "[username2]" --password2 "[password2]" --tls2

Depends on your server, you may not need the same options.

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Re: Migrating mail

Ok I imapsync works very well at transfering mail and preserving the read and unread markers so long that your end user has their account setup as imap in their mail client. I have many users that prefer to use pop3 when setting up their mail clients however when I migrate mail over using imapsync everything is marked as unread in a client set to use pop3. Any way to migrate mail over so that the read and unread markers are preserved both imap and pop3?

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Re: Migrating mail

No idea. According to imapsync FAQ page:

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Q. Is it possible to sync also the UIDL of the POP3 server?

R. imapsync does not POP3 but I think you mean UID in IMAP.
   See next question.

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Q. Is it possible to sync also the UIDs of the IMAP server?

UIDs in IMAP are chosen and created by the servers, not by the clients,
imapsync is a client. So UIDs can not be synced by any method,
unless the server is duplicated as is.