Move from iredmail on same server

maybl8

I now have Mailcow able to send and receive mail.
My next task is to move or copy my existing mail file from my iRedmail to Mailcow.
My problem is they are both installed on different partitions on the same server box so I can’t run them at the same time.
Is there a way to do this?
Thanks

maybl8

Ok I found out that I can copy the old emails to the volume folder for my domain in mailcow. Then change owner to vmail and I can see the mail. This may work for what I want to do.
It would be nice to copy mail into folders I create in sogo but I can’t find where the folders go in the file system.
Anyone know of an easier way to do this?

maybl8

@teissler
Well I have been trying to think about a way to use imapsync for my situation.
I have another physical box I could run on my lan.
I could make a iso of iRedmail server and install it on the other box. Turn it on. It will have a different internal IP address so with both iRedmail running and Mailcow running any new mail won’t go to the iRedmail server.
Then I could run and imapsync I think.
Does this sound possible?

teissler

if you have iredmail running on it’s own node you can setup mailcow in another system (vm or hw doesn’t matter) then you can use mailcow syncronisation jobs to copy your mails from iredmail to mailcow.

maybl8

Got my mail moved.
imapsync was not going to work for me so I copied the mailbox from iredmail and did a chown to vmail:vmail on all the mail messages. That got my inbox mail.
I then had allot of folders with mail in them I couldn’t initially find.
Since I also used Thunderbird because I don’t like webmail I was able to import the old thunderbird files into my new thunderbird and then move the folders to the new locations.
A little manual work but for one mailbox it wasn’t that hard.
If I had allot of mailboxes it would be a pain.

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