Guide to Migrate from Sendmail/Pop3/IMAP to Ubuntu Zimbra

bertie_uk · Post by **bertie_uk** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 7:19 am

I've just followed the Ubuntu installation guide and then proceeded to migrate my mail from Redhat Sendmail/Pop3/IMAP to Ubuntu 6.06 Server.
There is info in these forums how to do it but scattered about.
Here's a quick migration guide:
You'll need to have IMAP running on your old server. In my case it was present but disabled. On Zimbra server, as root:

apt-get install build-essential
apt-get install make
apt-get install libio-socket-ssl-perl
Get Mail-IMAPClient-2.2.9 from http://search.cpan.org/~djkernen/Mail-IMAPClient-2.2.9/
Gunzip & untar, and follow instructions in Mail-IMAP/INSTALL to install
Download TermReadKey-2.30 from http://search.cpan.org/~jstowe/TermReadKey-2.30/
Gunzip & untar TermReadKey and do same as Mail-IMAP to install (perl Makefile.PL, make, make test, make install)
Get imapsync from http://www.linux-france.org/prj/imapsync/dist/
Gunzip & untar imapsync
in imapsync dir, use the following command:

./imapsync --nosyncacls --syncinternaldates --host1 old_mail_server --user1 old_server_username --password1 oldserverpwd --host2 new_zimbra_server --user2 new_zimbra_username --password2 new_zimbra_pwd --authmech1 LOGIN --authmech2 LOGIN
You can add --folder INBOX to only sync the inbox folder. And there are other options too, ./imapsync to display the help.
Yes you need to run imapsync for each user, but this can be scripted.
Bertie

bertie_uk · Post by **bertie_uk** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:24 am

Admins: Any chance of making this a sticky? Just come back to it for my own reference and notice it's dropped off as it's over a month old.
Cheers
Bertie

phoenix · Post by **phoenix** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:31 am

You could add this to the wiki as a 'how-to' guide if you have the time.

sickdm · Post by **sickdm** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:15 pm

Additionally, some servers don't like plaintext connections, so --ssl1 and --ssl2 flags can be handy:
./imapsync --nosyncacls --syncinternaldates --ssl1 --ssl2 --host1 servername1 --user1 username1 --password1 password1 --host2 servername2 --user2 username1 --password2 password2 --authmech1 LOGIN --authmech2 LOGIN

SpEnTBoY · Post by **SpEnTBoY** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:04 am

[quote user="sickdm"]Additionally, some servers don't like plaintext connections, so --ssl1 and --ssl2 flags can be handy:
./imapsync --nosyncacls --syncinternaldates --ssl1 --ssl2 --host1 servername1 --user1 username1 --password1 password1 --host2 servername2 --user2 username1 --password2 password2 --authmech1 LOGIN --authmech2 LOGIN[/QUOTE]
Just to add to the list (although I'm sure people through trial and error would figure it out) here's what I had to run to sync my courier-imap server with Zimbra:
First on my courier IMAP server I needed to edit the imapd file.

# pwd

/usr/lib/courier-imap/etc

# vi imapd

I had to add an AUTH method as it wasn't there:

IMAP_CAPABILITY="IMAP4rev1 AUTH=CRAM-MD5

AUTH=CRAM-SHA1 CHILDREN NAMESPACE

THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES

SORT QUOTA IDLE"

Then the sync command I used:

./imapsync --nosyncacls --syncinternaldates

--host1 old_host --user1 old_user --password1 'my_pass_1'

--host2 zimba_host --user2 new_user --password2 'my_pass2'

--ssl2 --authmech2 PLAIN

--

Lonny

434logic · Post by **434logic** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 5:06 pm

For those who might want an RPM of imapsync for their RHEL4 installs (this will likely work just fine on RHEL3 or the accompanying CentOS releases, and probably on Fedora as well; I've only used it on CentOS4 right now), here's a spec for it. You'll need to grab the latest release from the imapsync web page (and you'll probably need a couple of Perl RPMs from the DAG repository; specifically, perl-Mail-IMAPClient, perl-Net-SSLeay, and perl-TermReadKey) and perl-IO-Socket-SSL from Red Hat/CentOS. Enjoy.
imapsync.spec.txt

Rich Graves · Post by **Rich Graves** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:55 pm

Can someone help me with an imapsync incantation (or any other tool) that can merge various IMAP and webmail clients' sent-mail, Sent Items, Sent, Sent Messages, etc. into Zimbra's single Sent folder?

ppearl · Post by **ppearl** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:23 pm

[quote user="Rich Graves"]Can someone help me with an imapsync incantation (or any other tool) that can merge various IMAP and webmail clients' sent-mail, Sent Items, Sent, Sent Messages, etc. into Zimbra's single Sent folder?[/QUOTE]
I don't have a list of all possible permutations, but once you build up a list in theory you can try something like the following to map various names to 'Sent' (untested):
imapsync ...

--regextrans2 's/^sent-mail$/Sent/i'

--regextrans2 's/^Sent Items$/Sent/i'

--regextrans2 's/^Sent Messages$/Sent/i'

vincen · Post by **vincen** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 8:45 am

Still obliged to use that tool imapsync to migrate imap accounts from an old server to Zimbra ?
Thanks

Wilson_Lee · Post by **Wilson_Lee** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:40 am

Hi bertie_uk,
I planning to migrate sendmail (slackware 10 ) to Zimbra ( RHEL5 ).

Is the steps same as wat u did?