[MlMt] Moving complete folder tree from one IMAP server to another

Rob Willett rob.mailmate at robertwillett.com
Wed May 6 13:23:55 EDT 2020


I wasn’t aware that imapsync was produced by Google.

I can state that I moved 40GB of mail data around with it when I changed 
mail servers and it worked very well indeed.

Rob

On 6 May 2020, at 18:15, Randall Gellens wrote:

> I haven't used Google's tools (and, speaking personally, Google is not 
> the most standards-compliant organization, so I'd probably use them 
> mostly for moving mail to or from Google rather than between 
> non-Google systems), but I have used Dovecot's dsync tool to move 
> between different IMAP servers.  See 
> https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/Dsync
>
> --Randall
>
> On 5 May 2020, at 11:47, Alexandre Takacs wrote:
>
>> Google Imapsync
>>
>> Very powerful tool for this type of use.
>>
>> On 5 May 2020, at 16:39, Fritz Slater via mailmate wrote:
>>
>>> I would like to move/copy a mailbox tree (i.e. mailboxes that 
>>> contain other mailboxes) from one IMAP server account to another.  I 
>>> tried just Option-drag and only the top mailbox was copied.  It is 
>>> empty on the new server as it only contained other mailboxes.  How 
>>> can I accomplish moving the entire tree?  Thanks.
>>> -Jon
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