Copying IMAP spool from one server to another

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On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Les Mikesell wrote:

> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 11:44:34 -0600
> From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: Copying IMAP spool from one server to another
> 
> On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 06:39, Dave MacRae wrote:
>> I've recently installed a Fedora 4 based system and want to use it as
>> my main mail server. I've installed dovecot and Squirrelmail
>> successfully and both work.
>>
>> My issue is that my current mail spool is located on another server
>> (Dreamhost) to which I can't get direct access to the mail folders.
>>
>> Is there an easy way to copy my mailspool from the existing server to
>> my new server?
>
> If the servers are both available at the same time, any imap
> client should be able to move messages between them.  For
> example you can add the accounts to evolution (or outlook,
> or thunderbird, etc.), create the folder structure you want
> on the new server, then select and drag messages to them.
> You can also move messages that you might have received
> locally with pop with clients that do both.
>

Maybe mailutil or offlineimap can help?  mailutil is part of 
uw-imap-utils package that can be obtained from Linva.org.

 	HTH,
 	Itay