Re: cyrus mailboxes format

2015-03-05 Thread Andres Tarallo
2015-03-04 19:59 GMT-02:00 Bron Gondwana : > On Thu, Mar 5, 2015, at 05:10 AM, Andres Tarallo wrote: > > > > > No matter what solution you choose, everybody's email is going to have to > resync, because you won't be able to keep the same UIDVALIDITY on your > folders. One advantage of staying wi

Re: cyrus mailboxes format

2015-03-05 Thread Geoff Winkless
My point is that kolab can provide all the things you describe (as Vlad states, you can integrate with AD authentication with some effort) and (since it retains Cyrus as its mailserver) should require no transfer of your existing mail. I suppose the question you have to consider is whether your Zi

Re: cyrus mailboxes format

2015-03-05 Thread Vladislav Kurz
On Wednesday 04 of March 2015 Bron Gondwana wrote: > It's true that we don't have things like AD integration. That's on the > goals for version 3.0, which we're hoping to release in July. I'd be > interested in knowing what else is dragging you away from Cyrus. I have a few installs of cyrus tha

Re: cyrus mailboxes format

2015-03-04 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015, at 05:10 AM, Andres Tarallo wrote: > > 2015-03-04 14:22 GMT-02:00 Shaheen Bakhtiar : >> Not sure what the size the user base is, but one strategy that helps >> cleanup the mail boxes in the process, is to simply leave the old >> mail server in place, create new accounts on eac

Re: cyrus mailboxes format

2015-03-04 Thread Andres Tarallo
2015-03-04 14:22 GMT-02:00 Shaheen Bakhtiar : > Not sure what the size the user base is, but one strategy that helps > cleanup the mail boxes in the process, is to simply leave the old mail > server in place, create new accounts on each client to the new server, and > put out a memo stating that t

Re: cyrus mailboxes format

2015-03-04 Thread Andres Tarallo
2015-03-04 14:12 GMT-02:00 : > > No, Cyrus don't use the "maildir" format, the excat layout is explained > here: > http://www.cyrusimap.org/docs/cyrus-imapd/2.4.6/internal/ > mailbox-format.php > > Thanks for the data. I'll be looking it. I've found a bounch tools that convert to maildir. I'll be

Re: cyrus mailboxes format

2015-03-04 Thread Andres Tarallo
2015-03-04 14:10 GMT-02:00 Alvin Starr : > I have had fairly good luck with imapsync. > I have used it to clone millions of emails but it is not the worlds most > efficient way of doing it but since this is usually a one time operation > toughing out the run-time over the coding and testing of so

Re: cyrus mailboxes format

2015-03-04 Thread Andres Tarallo
2015-03-04 15:16 GMT-02:00 Geoff Winkless : > [..] > Incidentally, a question for the OP: why change from Cyrus to Zimbra? If > you want collaborative features, wouldn't Kolab do the job (and therefore > allow you to keep your Cyrus backend)? > > Cyrus IMAP is part of an old in-house developed mai

Re: cyrus mailboxes format

2015-03-04 Thread Geoff Winkless
On 4 March 2015 at 16:36, Patrick Boutilier wrote: > >> I would take the opportunity to migrate my email away​ to someone who is >> unlikely to do so in future. >> > > > That would be hard to do if it was a work provided account. :-) > Any IT manager that did that would find his/her life made as

Re: cyrus mailboxes format

2015-03-04 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Geoff Winkless : On 4 March 2015 at 16:22, Shaheen Bakhtiar wrote: I find that most users actually appreciate the ability to clean house :) ​ ​That sounds like wishful thinking to me. I would be utterly furious with any email provider that did that to me, and if they had the bare

Re: cyrus mailboxes format

2015-03-04 Thread Geoff Winkless
On 4 March 2015 at 16:22, Shaheen Bakhtiar wrote: > I find that most users actually appreciate the ability to clean house :) ​ ​That sounds like wishful thinking to me. I would be utterly furious with any email provider that did that to me, and if they had the barefaced cheek to suggest that I s

Re: cyrus mailboxes format

2015-03-04 Thread Shaheen Bakhtiar
Not sure what the size the user base is, but one strategy that helps cleanup the mail boxes in the process, is to simply leave the old mail server in place, create new accounts on each client to the new server, and put out a memo stating that the old server will be up for X months, showing users

Re: cyrus mailboxes format

2015-03-04 Thread Patrick Boutilier
On 03/04/2015 12:29 PM, Geoff Winkless wrote: On 4 March 2015 at 16:22, Shaheen Bakhtiar mailto:shashan...@hotmail.com>> wrote: I find that most users actually appreciate the ability to clean house :) ​ ​That sounds like wishful thinking to me. I would be utterly furious with any email prov

Re: cyrus mailboxes format

2015-03-04 Thread Alvin Starr
I think most folks would just end up doing a select all. then drag and drop. You do that at 5:00 on Friday and leave your computer on for the weekend and when your back on Monday. Presto-Changeo your email is copied. On 03/04/2015 11:29 AM, Geoff Winkless wrote: On 4 March 2015 at 16:22, Shahe

Re: cyrus mailboxes format

2015-03-04 Thread Dave McMurtrie
On Wed, 2015-03-04 at 13:59 -0200, Andres Tarallo wrote: > Hi > > We're about to migrate a very old installation based on cyrus 2.3.11. The > target system is zimbra collaboration. Many users have years of mail stored > in their maiboxes, we want to migrate those mails to the nuew server. >

Re: cyrus mailboxes format

2015-03-04 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Andres Tarallo : Hi We're about to migrate a very old installation based on cyrus 2.3.11. The target system is zimbra collaboration. Many users have years of mail stored in their maiboxes, we want to migrate those mails to the nuew server. I have the idea to do so with the aid

Re: cyrus mailboxes format

2015-03-04 Thread Alvin Starr
I have had fairly good luck with imapsync. I have used it to clone millions of emails but it is not the worlds most efficient way of doing it but since this is usually a one time operation toughing out the run-time over the coding and testing of something more optimal is usually not worth it.

Re: Cyrus Mailboxes

2009-10-05 Thread Reinaldo de Carvalho
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Matt Ingram wrote: > Hi All. > > I have a user who wants to give another employee access to his mailbox, > without sharing his password. I believe Cyrus can do this, but I'm not > sure on the best practice and exactly how to do it - a link to some good > documentat

Re: Cyrus Mailboxes

2009-10-05 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 14:52 -0400, Matt Ingram wrote: > Hi All. > I have a user who wants to give another employee access to his mailbox, > without sharing his password. I believe Cyrus can do this, but I'm not > sure on the best practice and exactly how to do it - a link to some good > documen

Re: Cyrus mailboxes and OpenAFS

2004-07-27 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Stuart Merrill wrote: I'm attempting to configure a network of servers with SuSE Enterprise 8.0 looking after a RAID array with tape backup and SuSE OpeneXchange 4.1 (which I believe is a version of Cyrus) on a different server managing e-mail/groupware. I want to put the mailb