moving a group from one Imap backend to another

[Erik Colson]

Hi,

How can I move several groups with as minimum as possible user
interaction from one IMAP backend to another IMAP backend ?


Thanks

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Post by Erik Colson
How can I move several groups with as minimum as possible user
interaction from one IMAP backend to another IMAP backend ?

Uhm... I don't really think there's any pre-defined command for doing
this? But I may be wrong.

I'd just enter each group in question, process-mark all the articles and
then move/copy the articles to the other server.

[Erik Colson]

Post by Lars Ingebrigtsen
I'd just enter each group in question, process-mark all the articles and
then move/copy the articles to the other server.

Thanks Lars

That is what I was fearing... I have literally hundreds of boxes to
move. That would give me certainly a whole day of work, which would be
acceptable, except the handling looks error prone since I would switch
from actual work to Emacs and back on and on. That would most certainly
provoke a collision somewhere between my neurones ;)

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

EC> I have literally hundreds of boxes to move.

Then Gnus is probably not the right tool. I've moved tens of thousands
of mailboxes with imapsync, but that was before the author went stupid
with trying to make money off of it in this really weird way. I still
have 1.217 around, which I think was really free, if you want it. Or
someone who paid the fifty euros for it put the source up on github at
https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync (Yes, this doesn't violate the
license, if you were curious.)

- J<

[Alexander Baier]

Post by Jason L Tibbitts III
Then Gnus is probably not the right tool. I've moved tens of thousands
of mailboxes with imapsync, but that was before the author went stupid
with trying to make money off of it in this really weird way. I still
have 1.217 around, which I think was really free, if you want it. Or
someone who paid the fifty euros for it put the source up on github at
https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync (Yes, this doesn't violate the
license, if you were curious.)

Another tool that may be of interest is isync/mbsync. I think it allows
you to configure two IMAP servers you want to sync. Using one
directional sync should allow you to propagate messages from one server
to the other.

HTH,