On 3/30/11 03:51 , Alexandre Chapellon wrote: > Le mardi 29 mars 2011 à 19:04 -0400, Jim Lawson a écrit : >> Does the proprietary solution allow IMAP access? If so, I would use >> imapsync. >> > Thanks for answers. > > Not all the accounts have IMAP enabled, but I guess I could setup some > master account with IMAP enabled or even enable IMAP for all users to > proceed with migration. > But will imapsync keep trac of UIDs so users won't have have duplicated > messages or re-download them if they use POP3?
I don't think so. The sync happens via IMAP, and I don't think IMAP clients can *set* UIDs of messages; only the server does this (someone please correct me if I'm mistaken.) > Will it preserve flags of messages so read or deleted messages do not > appear as new messages? Yes; at least, it has for us in testing (with Dovecot as the destination server.) Whether it will work for you depends on the specifics of the source server. Why not give it a try and see? Jim
