imapsync - personal reminder...

at the end of a long story there was the need to transfer mail from a Lotus Domino server to a local Thunderbird account... anyways, for some other reasons it seemed quite a good idea to transfer them to a local IMAP server, and the have Thunderbird download all mail.

after some different IMAP servers the best solution seemed to be dovecot - with the others there were problems, e.g. with extended attributes.

copying mails from Domino to the local IMAP server was then done with imapsync:

imapsync --host1 domino.e.t.c --user1 "USERNAME" --authmech1 PLAIN --host2 localhost --user2 dummy --authmech2 PLAIN --prefix2 "~/mail/" --syncinternaldates --split1 50 --split2 50 --nofastio1 --debug

references

1. http://www.mozilla-europe.org/de/products/thunderbird/
2. http://www.dovecot.org/
   
3. http://www.linux-france.org/prj/imapsync/