[HLUG] Archiving dead users email accounts

[Tom English]

When I recently moved all our works emails to our new server, I used
imapcopy - which is available for Debian via apt-get 

It won't do any form of synchronisation - so if it stops half way
through and you restart the process, you'll get duplicate emails, but
it's no big deal. 

I would use something that copies the emails over IMAP, then just remove
access to the accounts afterwards if not needed, rather than trying to
copy the mail directory structure over - each server may be different
(as was the case with us). 

On 2014-10-22 15:08, Julian Robbins wrote: 

> Hi
> 
> Something that has come up that I wonder if any of you have any advice.
> 
> I'm moving mail servers to a new host, but have a number of now dead user
> email accounts on the old server. I want to keep them (for now) so they can
> be accessed if needs be but this is unlikely to be used much at all, as
> some users left a few years ago now. I can just copy over as mailboxes and
> accounts to new host via imapsync but don't want these accounts to be
> easily accessible. We are using Dovecot BTW, and old the host uses cpanel
> so no shell access (new host has command line access ;-) . I would rather
> store them locally if possible. But as you have probably found archiving
> mail isn't quite so obvious if you're not using Outlook.
> 
> So I can archive on server or as a client mail archive, I don't mind and
> need to do this for about 15 mail accounts ..
> 
> Ideas ?
> 
> Open source solution preferred ... (of course ;-) )
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Julian