Conversion/Migration

[Peter Lawler]

Hi!
I am aware this question has been asked several times before, so please go easy on me.

I'm wishing to move people off BSD popper over to a Cyrus system I've set up. Unfortunately, being school holidays, they've gone and got their current mailboxes jammed with stuff that is (no doubt) so damned important I'd be hung, drawn and quartered if the little blighters lost it.

I've done some digging in the archives, and it seems the 'best' way recommended to do this is with the UOW mailutil program. I've run what I seem to think the command required is, but I get :

Read-only POP3 access not available

I was trying to 'copy' as a test, as I don't want to go destroying data untul such time as I'm confident I've got it right.

Now, there's a couple of points I wish to ask.

1. I *assume* that this is POPPER throwing this error. So, one quiet night if I cut over to CYRUS, disable external access to the POP server, then enable read only access it'll convert files. If so, what's the easiest way to do this inside cyrus's config file?

2. Does this work 'globally', or will each user need to have it run in their account? From what I can make out of the source, I could set up the POP daemon read only, then feed it user names (ie, not prompting for passwords), and 'do it' that way, then mailutil will (hopefully :-) pass the user back into Cyrus IMAP.

3. Point 2 brings up the matter creating the User's INBOX folder and feeding the mail in as appropriate. I'd assume that this feeding into IMAP would need to be done as the cyrus admin user (for permission reasons). Therefore, step 2 would also need to be done as the cyrus admin. Therefore, is it possible to set up Cyrus POP to be read only if the cyrus admin user connects (no, I don't intend to leave this feature enabled).

Any thoughts appreciated.

Cheers,

Pete.