Moving mail

[Moish]

On 23/09/2010 19:12, Geoff Shang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thought I'd tap into the collective whisdom to help solve this one.
>
> A few friends and I run a Linode VPS running Debian stable. We're using
> Postfix for our MTA, with virtual mailboxes in Maildir format. We offer
> Squirrelmail as one of our webmail platforms.
>
> Another friend has a website and Email system hosted on a Windows
> hosting platform. The Email uses a system called SmarterMail.
> Unfortunately, the web interface for SmarterMail has become more and
> more difficult for a blind person to use, and so we decided to move her
> Email from her server to ours. We're also looking at moving her site but
> it's currently written in Cold Fusion which could cause difficulties ...
> but I digress.
>
> The new mail has been showing up here for months, and everyone who uses
> her Email service is very happy with our hosting of her Email. What I
> want to do now is move the old remaining mail from the old site into the
> equivalent accounts on the new system. I'm thinking that I could do this
> using Fetchmail over an IMAP connection (SmarterMail supports IMAP4) and
> somehow deliver it to the new accounts. Or possibly use some other means
> to put it into appropriate Maildir folders. The latter would be better,
> as some of this mail is already saved into folders and it seems silly to
> require users to resave items to folders for storage when they're
> already saved like this.
>
> Any thoughts on how to achieve this? Unfortunately, this isn't a *nix
> system so I can't just log in and copy the files, I need to use Email
> protocols to get the mail and then do something with it, and I'm not
> really sure where to start.
>
> Thanks,
> Geoff.
>
>
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Connect to the old mail system, download the messages to local storage, 
connect
to the new system using imap and then move the mail from local folders
to remote folders.
I've done it with Thunderbird but any decent client would do it.
I recall that there were tools to do it on the server, but why bother?

Did I miss something ?

-- 
Moish