Topic: IMAP Folder converting !!need HELP!!

[Matthias J. Lang]

Hey folks,
I really have a fucking problem:

I used SuSE Linux with Cyrus IMAP to provide e-mail to our workers, now I updated to e-smith. I saved the mailspace of every user (INBOX) which is in one file. How can I integrate the mails from these files to the new e-smith server? I didn't find any possibility to do so so far.

Please help me!

Thank you very much!
Matthias

[danielrm26]

I don't know if you can do that my friend.  Of course you could untar the folder and see what comes out and move it into the appropriate directories, but I don't think that is going to be so easy. I imagine that the old and new formats will be different in ways that will make it hard to do without some work.  

Have you bought the product?  If so try contacting tech support, they may have a tool or something for importing into SME.

Good luck...

[j.benedict]

In sme server 5.1.2 the read IMAP/POP3 email is in format "10123456.876.e-smith" in each individual user->Maildir->cur the folder is located in /home/e-smith/files/users/

Check that out......

if you read about "life with qmail" you will fine that there's a way to convert the mbox mail format to Maildir format.

Hope this gives you a good start....

Good Luck!