1 Topic by Spayda

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Topic: import mailboxes

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Is it possible to import mailboxes from another NOT iredmail Mailserver installation?

because in iredmail the folders look like this

"example@domain.org" the mailboxes are not sorted in folders but
on the other mailserver every domain ending with "domain.org" is in the folder "domain.org"

is this a problem?

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2 Reply by ZhangHuangbin

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Re: import mailboxes

If you store mail messages in Maildir format on another server, it's able to copy the whole mailbox to iRedMail -- of course you must make sure it's copied to correct directory.

Or, you can migrate the mailbox with 'imapsync', it doesn't care about maildir path/structure, but it requires username/passwords on both servers.

3 Reply by lordhelmet

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Re: import mailboxes

hy, do you see a problem with the method to just select a bunch of mails in i.e. thunderbird and drag them to the other inbox?

4 Reply by ZhangHuangbin

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Re: import mailboxes

lordhelmet wrote:

hy, do you see a problem with the method to just select a bunch of mails in i.e. thunderbird and drag them to the other inbox?

It should work.