{"id":1563,"date":"2017-03-23T21:14:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T21:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2017-03-23T22:01:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T22:01:19","slug":"moving-emails-to-new-host-with-imapsync","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/moving-emails-to-new-host-with-imapsync\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving emails to new host with imapsync"},"content":{"rendered":"

More info about imapsync here<\/a><\/p>\n

Install imapsync<\/strong><\/p>\n

CentOS 7, Works on cPanel servers too<\/p>\n

yum install epel-release && yum install imapsync<\/pre>\n
Once installed check and make sure it works.<\/p>\n
imapsync --version<\/pre>\n
If it gives you the version number you should be good to go.<\/p>\n
Move email account<\/strong><\/p>\n
imapsync --host1 mail.emaildomain.com --user1 username@emaildomain.com --password1  \"password1\" --host2 mail.exampledomain.com --user2 username@movetodomain.com --password2  \"password2\"<\/pre>\n
Example :<\/p>\n
imapsync --host1 mail.myemail.com --user1 bob@myemail.com --password1  \"password1\" --host2 mail.incredigeek.com --user2 bob@incredigeek.com --password2  \"password2\"<\/pre>\n
Moving Multiple accounts<\/strong><\/p>\n
Best way to move multiple accounts is to use a script and and a list that contains all the usernames and passwords to the accounts you want to move.<\/p>\n
example scripts can be found on the imapsync website here is a script<\/a> example and here is the example file.txt<\/a><\/p>\n
Example script.<\/p>\n
#!\/bin\/sh\r\n#\r\n# $Id: sync_loop_unix.sh,v 1.6 2015\/11\/04 18:23:04 gilles Exp gilles $\r\n\r\n# Example for imapsync massive migration on Unix systems.\r\n# See also http:\/\/imapsync.lamiral.info\/FAQ.d\/FAQ.Massive.txt\r\n#\r\n# Data is supposed to be in file.txt in the following format:\r\n# host001_1;user001_1;password001_1;host001_2;user001_2;password001_2;\r\n# ...\r\n# Separator is character semi-colon \";\" it can be changed by any character changing IFS=';' \r\n# in the while loop below.\r\n# # Each line contains 6 columns, columns are parameter values for \r\n# --host1 --user1 --password1 --host2 --user2 --password2\r\n# and a trailing empty fake column to avaid CR LF part going \r\n# in the 6th parameter password2. Don't forget the last semicolon.\r\n#\r\n# You can add extra options after the variable \"$@\" \r\n# Use character backslash \\ at the end of each suplementary line, except for the last one.\r\n# You can also pass extra options via the parameters of this script since\r\n# they will be in \"$@\"\r\n\r\n# The credentials filename \"file.txt\" used for the loop can be renamed \r\n# by changing \"file.txt\" below.\r\n\r\n\r\necho Looping on account credentials found in file.txt\r\necho\r\n\r\n{ while IFS=';' read  h1 u1 p1 h2 u2 p2 fake\r\n    do \r\n        { echo \"$h1\" | egrep \"^#\" ; } > \/dev\/null && continue # this skip commented lines in file.txt\r\n        echo \"==== Starting imapsync from host1 $h1 user1 $u1 to host2 $h2 user2 $u2 ====\"\r\n        imapsync --host1 \"$h1\" --user1 \"$u1\" --password1 \"$p1\" \\\r\n                 --host2 \"$h2\" --user2 \"$u2\" --password2 \"$p2\" \\\r\n                 \"$@\"  \r\n        echo \"==== Ended imapsync from host1 $h1 user1 $u1 to host2 $h2 user2 $u2 ====\"\r\n        echo\r\n    done \r\n} < file.txt<\/pre>\n
Example list of accounts to<\/p>\n
mail.maildomain.com;user1@incredigeek.com;password1;mail.incredigeek.com;user2@incredigeek.com;password2;<\/pre>\n
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How to use,<\/h1>\n
You can run these command from a Linux computer<\/p>\n
Download script<\/h2>\n
wget www.incredigeek.com\/home\/downloads\/imapsync\/imapsync_loop.sh<\/pre>\n
Make the script executable<\/h2>\n
chmod +x imapsync_loop.sh<\/pre>\n
Create a text file named “imapsync_list.txt”<\/h2>\n
This file will contain the mail server to transfer from, username, and password, and then the mail server to transfer to, username and password.\u00a0 Add one line per account.<\/p>\n
Example:<\/p>\n
mail.servertotransferfrom.com;Username1;Password1;mail.servertomoveto.com;Username2;Password2;\r\nmail.servertotransferfrom.com;testuser;123456;mail.servertomoveto.com;bob;123456;<\/pre>\n
Execute the script to start moving mail<\/h2>\n
.\/imapsync_loop.sh<\/pre>\n
Troubleshooting<\/h2>\n
In the username you may need to use the username@domainname.tld, so if the username is bob, and the mail domain is incredigeek.com, use bob@incredigeek.com for the username in the imapsync_list.txt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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