Imap

Part of the PurelyManage series. Installing imapsync imapsync is a Perl script. The version in most Linux package managers is years out of date and will fail on modern IMAP servers with current TLS requirements. Install it from the GitHub source instead. First install the Perl dependencies via apt: sudo apt-get install -y \ libauthen-ntlm-perl libcgi-pm-perl libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl \ libdata-uniqid-perl libdigest-hmac-perl libdist-checkconflicts-perl \ libfile-copy-recursive-perl libfile-tail-perl libio-compress-perl \ libio-socket-inet6-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libio-tee-perl \ libjson-webtoken-perl liblockfile-simple-perl libmail-imapclient-perl \ libmodule-scandeps-perl libnet-ssleay-perl libpar-packer-perl \ libreadonly-perl libregexp-common-perl libsys-meminfo-perl \ libterm-readkey-perl libtest-mockobject-perl libtest-pod-perl \ libunicode-string-perl liburi-perl libwww-perl Then download imapsync directly from GitHub and make it executable: ...

Part of the PurelyManage series. The migration system in PurelyManage wraps imapsync and adds a job queue, a UI, and a few quality-of-life features on top. This post covers the job system from the user side: how jobs are created, run, monitored, and managed. The imapsync installation and the async job architecture under the hood are covered in the next post. Server Configuration Before running any migration you need to add IMAP server definitions. A server definition stores only the connection details: host, port, and whether to use SSL. Credentials are entered per-job, not per-server, so you can reuse the same server config across many migrations without re-entering connection details each time. ...

Part of the PurelyManage series. The Problem Migrating an organization’s email means moving every mailbox from the old provider into PurelyMail. Each mailbox requires the source IMAP credentials: the email address and password the user logs in with on the old system. The naive way to collect these is to email everyone a spreadsheet and ask them to fill in their passwords. That spreadsheet then sits in someone’s inbox or a shared drive, plaintext, accessible to anyone who can read it. It is also error-prone: users mistype passwords, the admin has no way to know if a credential is correct until the migration job fails. ...