This script allows mass copy of mails between IMAP servers. It uses imapsync and gets the list of emails accounts from csv files.
To use this script, you will need imapsync. To install it, you can use this (tested on Debian 7 amd64):
cd /usr/local/bin
wget https://raw.github.com/imapsync/imapsync/master/imapsync
apt-get install libreadonly-perl libunicode-string-perl libmail-imapclient-perl libterm-readkey-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libdigest-hmac-perl liburi-perl libfile-copy-recursive-perl libio-tee-perl
chmod +x imapsync
You should make sure /usr/local/bin is in your $PATH variable.
Then, you can download this GIT repo as ZIP and install imapsync-csv in a folder:
cd /home/user
unzip imapsync-csv.git
mv imapsync-csv.git imapsync-csv
Write permissions are needed in the errors/, logs/ and migrations/ folders. You may want to only allow access of errors/ and imapsync.csv to you, as they will contain plain passwords:
chmod 700 errors -R
chmod 755 logs migrations -R
chmod 700 imapsync.csv
The imapsync.sh file is the script itself. The folders are used to:
- errors/: per-day CSV file with accounts that returned errors
- logs/: per-day full imapsync log
- migrations/: per-user/per-day imapsync errors.
The imapsync.csv file needs to be filled with accounts (one per line) to sync, with this values (semi-colon separated):
- user login on source server.
- user password on source server.
- user login on destination server. If empty, the same login as source will be used.
- user password on destination server. If empty, the same password as source will be used.
- source folder
- destination folder
This file will look like this:
admin@test.com;srcPa$$;newaccount@test.com;pass;INBOX;
user@mydomain.com;Password;;;;Temp
All other columns will be ignored. That allow you to copy one of the CSV file in errors/ and relaunch a sync:
cp errors/2014-01-29.csv imapsync.csv
Before launching imapsync.sh, you need to edit the imapsync.conf file.
- authx expects imapsync arguments for authentication (--sslx, --authmechx, etc.)
- domainx can be filled if all users are in the same domain and if the source/destination server expects full email address for authentication
- globalpassx can be filled with a global password, if the source/destination server allows password overwrite (through a specific plugin for example, or using and admin account)
- dryrun allows execution of the scripts and imapsync without applying modifications, for example to check authentication of users
- extra_args can be used to add extra parameters directly to imapsync
Then to sync emails:
./imapsync.sh
You should launch this in screen to prevent sync being stopped in case of network/SSH temporary failure.