I have been trying to find a way to copy everything from a Gmail account to a Dovecot mail server. The way I have ended up doing it so far is simply by using Apple Mail (if you regularly read this blog, you’d know that I use a Mac). The steps are as follows:
- Create 2 accounts in Apple Mail: Gmail and the Dovecot account
- Sync the Gmail account to your local computer
- Copy everything to the Dovecot server
This works, but I have to use a slow connection (my home connection) and I have a lot of accounts to do this for, so I would much prefer to script this. The problem is that I have been trying to get this to work with either imapsync or imapcopy. Neither seem to work properly.
According to the documentation, I have the proper version and it should work with GMail. I tried all the supported –authmech1 possibilities. I found an article saying that Google doesn’t accept the word AUTHENTICATE when authenticating, but then imapsync wouldn’t work and it claims it does. So, when trying imapsync, this is what it looked like (some of the security issues have been blocked to protect the innocent):
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 | [root@smtp4 imapsync-1.286]# ./imapsync --host1 imap.gmail.com --ssl1 --user1 user1@gmail.com --password1 MASKED --host2 mail.server.com --user2 user1@server.com --password2 MASKED $RCSfile: imapsync,v $ $Revision: 1.286 $ $Date: 2009/07/24 15:53:04 $ Here is a [linux] system (Linux mail.server.com 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5xen #1 SMP Wed Nov 12 09:48:10 EST 2008 x86_64) with perl 5.8.8 Mail::IMAPClient 3.21 IO::Socket 1.31 IO::Socket::SSL Digest::MD5 2.36 Digest::HMAC_MD5 Term::ReadKey Date::Manip and the module Mail::IMAPClient version used here is 3.21 Command line used: ./imapsync --host1 imap.gmail.com --ssl1 --user1 user1@gmail.com --password1 MASKED --host2 mail.server.com --user2 user1@server.com --password2 MASKED --useheader Message-Id --skipsize --regextrans2 s/\[Gmail\]/Gmail/ |
My attempt at imapcopy was closer to successful, but still not what I needed. I ran into some Dovecot errors (at least I think that’s what it is) that I am not sure what to do with.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 | [root@smtp4 imapCopy]# time sh imapCopy.sh imaps://user1%40gmail.com:MASKED@imap.gmail.com imap://user1%40server.com:MASKED@mail.server.com 2009-12-02 18:13:28,811 INFO ImapCopier - Starting 2009-12-02 18:13:28,812 DEBUG ImapCopier - Parameters length:2 2009-12-02 18:13:28,813 DEBUG ImapCopier - opening conections 2009-12-02 18:13:28,816 DEBUG ImapCopier - opening imaps conection to imap.gmail.com 2009-12-02 18:13:32,633 DEBUG ImapCopier - opening imap conection to mail.server.com 2009-12-02 18:13:34,666 DEBUG ImapCopier - Creating target Folder: Adbrite Exception in thread "main" javax.mail.MessagingException: Unsupported type; nested exception is: com.sun.mail.iap.ProtocolException: Unsupported type at com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPFolder.doCommandIgnoreFailure(IMAPFolder.java:2618) at com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPFolder.create(IMAPFolder.java:725) at com.fisbein.joan.model.ImapCopier.copyFolderAndMessages(ImapCopier.java:190) at com.fisbein.joan.model.ImapCopier.copy(ImapCopier.java:152) at com.fisbein.joan.model.ImapCopier.main(ImapCopier.java:35) Caused by: com.sun.mail.iap.ProtocolException: Unsupported type at com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPFolder$6.doCommand(IMAPFolder.java:745) at com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPFolder.doProtocolCommand(IMAPFolder.java:2639) at com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPFolder.doCommandIgnoreFailure(IMAPFolder.java:2611) ... 4 more |
So if you have any idea what to do here in a more intelligent manner than I am stuck with, please let me know in the comments. Thanks.
