Moving to a new imap server

Sriram Karra karra.etc at gmail.com
Wed May 16 02:46:24 BST 2012


On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev at laposte.net
> wrote:


>
> I would do the following:
>
> 0. Make a tarball of the local maildir.
> 1. Write a new offlinerc for newserver.
> 2. Make a first sync (mostly empty).
> 3. Untar the archive to the updated maildir of newserver.
> 4. Have fun with nametrans rules.
> 5. Sync again to have local mail on newserver.
> 6. Live happily ever after.
>
> In the past, I've migrated my mails from one server to another this way.


Thank you Nicolas.

-Sriram
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