[ale] IMAP Sync

[adam]

Richard Bronosky wrote:
> The registrar thread is touching on this, but I think this topic (and
> at least 3 others in that thread) deserves its own discussion.
> 
> I have accomplished this in the past by fetching and forwarding.
> However, when you do that the headers are altered and each email shows
> a clear trail of what has happened. The nice thing about this method
> is that it could be used for POP3 to POP3 or any combination of POP3
> and IMAP.
> 
> What I'd like to see is a tool that connects to one IMAP server and
> pulls a message down and connects to another and pushes it up. If this
> is done with no MTA involved, I don't believe the message would be
> altered. Is this true? How would you implement it?
> 

I think what you want is exactly named in your subject:

imapsync

http://freshmeat.net/projects/imapsync/

I used it for an extremely large mail migration for nearly a thousand 
mailboxes, and it performed admirably.

Adam