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From: Alexander Baier <alexander.baier@mailbox.org>
To: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@math.uh.edu>
Cc: Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>,  ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: moving a group from one Imap backend to another
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 10:38:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4nnps2m.fsf@mailbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ufak2zlpyg5.fsf@epithumia.math.uh.edu> (Jason L. Tibbitts, III's message of "Fri, 13 Feb 2015 10:29:14 -0600")

On 2015-02-13 17:29 Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>>> "EC" == Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net> writes:
> Then Gnus is probably not the right tool.  I've moved tens of thousands
> of mailboxes with imapsync, but that was before the author went stupid
> with trying to make money off of it in this really weird way.  I still
> have 1.217 around, which I think was really free, if you want it.  Or
> someone who paid the fifty euros for it put the source up on github at
> https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync  (Yes, this doesn't violate the
> license, if you were curious.)

Another tool that may be of interest is isync/mbsync.  I think it allows
you to configure two IMAP servers you want to sync.  Using one
directional sync should allow you to propagate messages from one server
to the other. 

HTH,
-- 
Alexander Baier



      reply	other threads:[~2015-02-24  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-10 14:44 Erik Colson
2015-02-13  6:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-02-13  8:25   ` Erik Colson
2015-02-13 16:29     ` Jason L Tibbitts III
2015-02-24  9:38       ` Alexander Baier [this message]

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