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Migrate Email with mbsync

Earnest Ma

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Migrating mail between IMAP servers using mbsync
My university recently announced a switch from Zimbra to Microsoft Exchange server. The thought didn’t sit well with me, so I decided to migrate the mails to my own mail server instead. A generalised account of what I used to achieve this, can be found below. …
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Just wanted to boost this blog post as it greatly helped me migrate emails from Luke Smith’s emailwiz script to Modoboa (more on that in a future post).

In package managers, mbsync is often installed through isync.

Here are some things mbsync complained about:

UseIMAPS is deprecated, I simply left it out and it worked ok.

For accounts with subfolders (Archives, Archives/2020 etc.) I used:

 MaildirStore me-local
 Path ~/Mail/me
 Inbox ~/Mail/me/INBOX
+SubFolders Verbatim