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<CENTER>
<H1>Imapsync tutorial</H1>
<FONT SIZE="4"><I>Gilles LAMIRAL gilles.lamiral@laposte.net</I></FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="4">$Id: TUTORIAL_Unix.t2t,v 1.17 2016/01/21 03:34:23 gilles Exp gilles $ </FONT>
<FONT SIZE="4">$Id: TUTORIAL_Unix.t2t,v 1.18 2016/02/04 03:27:01 gilles Exp gilles $ </FONT>
</CENTER>
<P></P>
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<LI><A HREF="#toc5">2.3. Prepare your credentials</A>
<LI><A HREF="#toc6">2.4. Take a real user account as source</A>
<LI><A HREF="#toc7">2.5. Take a test user account as destination</A>
<LI><A HREF="#toc8">2.6. Edit your own script mysync</A>
</UL>
<LI><A HREF="#toc8">3. Background knowledge about emailboxes</A>
<LI><A HREF="#toc9">4. Conventions</A>
<LI><A HREF="#toc10">5. Why start with a test account on destination host2?</A>
<LI><A HREF="#toc11">6. Imapsync default behaviour</A>
<LI><A HREF="#toc9">3. Background knowledge about emailboxes</A>
<LI><A HREF="#toc10">4. Conventions</A>
<LI><A HREF="#toc11">5. Why start with a test account on destination host2?</A>
<LI><A HREF="#toc12">6. Imapsync default behaviour</A>
</UL>
<P></P>
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<LI>--host2 <B>imaphost2.mydomain.tld</B>
<LI>--user2 <B>myuser2</B>
<LI>--password2 <B>mysecret2</B>
<P></P>
++ Edit your own script mysync ++
<P></P>
</UL>
<A NAME="toc8"></A>
<H2>2.6. Edit your own script mysync</H2>
<P>
Now edit the script <CODE>mysync</CODE> and replace the test values by yours.
<P></P>
</P>
<P>
You're ready for a dry test on your accounts.
<P></P>
</P>
<PRE>
sh mysync
</PRE>
<P></P>
<P>
Since mysync script is a copy of examples/imapsync_example.sh,
your first run with your data should include three other options
--automap --justfolders --dry.
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but you will test whether the credentials are ok on both sides
or not, by a successful login or a failure. You will also observe
if the folders mapping is ok.
<P></P>
</P>
<P>
If a login fails then double-check all three values that identify
the account, which are the host, the login name, and the password.
<P></P>
</P>
<P>
If the folders mapping proposed is not ok then you can fix it with
option --f1f2, like this example:
</UL>
</P>
<PRE>
... --f1f2 "Sent Messages=Sent"
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sh mysync
</PRE>
<A NAME="toc8"></A>
<A NAME="toc9"></A>
<H1>3. Background knowledge about emailboxes</H1>
<P>
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the Unix examples.
</P>
<A NAME="toc9"></A>
<A NAME="toc10"></A>
<H1>4. Conventions</H1>
<P>
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imapsync --host1 test.lamiral.info --user1 test1 --password1 secret1 ...
</PRE>
<A NAME="toc10"></A>
<A NAME="toc11"></A>
<H1>5. Why start with a test account on destination host2?</H1>
<P>
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users won't like you mess up their mailboxes.
</P>
<A NAME="toc11"></A>
<A NAME="toc12"></A>
<H1>6. Imapsync default behaviour</H1>
<P>