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| FAQ for imapsync |
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Q. We have found that the sent time and date have been changed to the time at which the file was synchronised.
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R. I guess this is the case with Eudora but not with Mutt, no ?
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Eurora shows by default the time the imap server received the email.
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I think it is quite a strong behavior since the messages can
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have travelled some time before the reception.
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The sent time and date are given by the "Date:" header
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and it is set most of the time by the MUA (Mail User Agent,
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Mutt, Eudora, Thunderbird etc.).
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imapsync does not touch any header since the
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header is used to identify the messages in
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both parts.
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Solutions: a) Don't use buggy Eudora
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b) Use the --syncinternaldates option and keep using Eudora :-)
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Q. I'm migrating from WU to Cyrus, and the mail folders are
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under /home/user/mail but the tool copies everything in
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/home/user, how can i avoid that?
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R. Use
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imapsync ... --include '^mail'
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or (better)
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imapsync ... --subscribed --subscribe
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Q. I'm migrating from WU to Cyrus, and the mail folders are
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under /home/user/mail directory. When imapsync creates the
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folders in the new cyrus imap server, it makes a folder
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"mail" and below that folder puts all the mail folders the
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user have in /home/user/mail, i would like to have all those
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folders directly under INBOX.
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R. Use
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imapsync ... --regextrans2 's/^mail/INBOX/' --dry
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look at the simulation and if all transformations seem
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good then remove the --dry option.
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Q. Migrating from Groupwise to Cyrus
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R. By Jamie Neil:
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I eventually managed to get the mail to migrate without errors using the
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following options:
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--sep1 /
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- doesn't report separator so has to be set explicitly.
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--nosyncacls
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- doesn't support ACLs.
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--skipheader '^Content-Type'
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- MIME separator IDs seem to change every time a mail is accessed so
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this is required to stop duplicates.
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--maxage 3650
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- some messages just don't seem to want to transfer and produce the
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perl errors I mentioned before. This prevents the errors, but the bad
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messages don't transfer.
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Even though the mail migrated OK, there are a couple of gotchas with
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Groupwise IMAP:
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1) Some of the GW folders are not real folders and are not available to
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IMAP, the main problem one being "Sent Items". I could find no way of
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coping the contents of these folders. The nearest I got was to create a
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"real" folder and copy/move the sent items into it, but imapsync still
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didn't see the messages (I think because there is something funny about
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the reported dates/sizes).
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It think this problem has been rectified in GW6.5.
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2) The "skipheader '^Content-Type'" directive is required to stop
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duplicate messages being created. GW seems to generate this field on the
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fly for messages that have MIME separators and so it's different every time.
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3) Version 6.0.1 of the Groupwise Internet Connector sucks. I was
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getting server abends when I pushed it a bit hard! I eventually had to
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upgrade to 6.0.4 which seems to be a lot more stable.
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