[Kroupware] switch from cyrus 2.0.16 to kolab, how ?

[Thorsten Luft]

Dieter Kluenter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thorsten Luft <tluft at systrade.de> writes:
> 
> 
>>Dieter Kluenter wrote:
>>
>>>Thorsten Luft <tluft at systrade.de> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>how do i convert my cyrus-2.0.16  installation to kolab ?
>>>
>>>Which cyrus? cyrus-imap or cyrus-sasl?
>>
>>cyrus-imapd-2.0.16 to cyrus-imapd-2.1.14 (kolab)
>>
>>at the moment we use /etc/passwd and want to use ldap in the
>>future. So sasl doesnt matter at the moment. Only the user plus
>>mailboxes have to be upgraded to the new version.
> 
> 
> It is a bit complicated due to the fact that renameing a mailbox
> requires changes in other parts of the system. That is, renamemailbox
> user.blahbla user.blahbla at domain would not doe the trick.
> But you could try to create users in Kolab and than copy their old
> mails into the new mailspool. In the book "Managing IMAP"is a tcl
> script, that would solve your problem.
> 
> -Dieter
> 

Thanks, i will test it.

maybe, i can run both cyrus-imapd at the same time and let the user copy there 
emails by them self.

Thorsten