Migration

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 The version in most Linux package managers is years out of date and will fail on modern IMAP servers with current TLS requirements.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. ...