At 13:53 15/01/02 +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Olivier MACCHIONI <omacchioni@kaptech.com> [2002.01.15.1317 +0100]:> Could help a lot... The problem is to retreive the mail which has already > been delivered to the "old" mailboxes. why don't you rsync them over??? are they mailbox or Maildir formats? then feed them to the local procmail on the new ISP, or have them be delivered natively, and you are set.
Usually when one customer goes from one ISP to the other (which was the initial problem as stated by Alexis) you don't have the root on both mail servers so rsync'ing the mailboxes is usually not possible.
Moreover I doubt Lotus Notes uses mailbox or Maildir formats to store mails (I may very well be mistaken on this one). Same story goes for Exchange for example.
The only standards protocols you can really rely on are usually POP and SMTP which fetchmail can handle.
> If you have a complete list of login / passwords you can use fetchmail to > get the mail from the old accounts and send it to the new ones. ... and generate *loads* of traffic...
Yes... doubles the mail traffic during your migration process. Well, that's life... you have to synch your accounts one way or another, so the data *has* to go from ISP A to ISP B.
Olivier