Migration tool for Webfaction mailboxes

saebel

nval After the migration, Thunderbird didn't show any folders on my opalstack
mail account, because by default it "only shows folders you are subscribed to".
Other mail apps may not have this "feature", but for Thunderbird you can do
this: Go to account settings -> server settings -> advanced, and un-check "only show
folders you are subscribed to". Alternatively, you can right-click on the
account name on the left pane, select "Subscribe...", wait for it to find all
your email folders and then subscribe to all of them or as needed.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS! I thought my subfolders hadn't migrated.

ngkabra

Thanks to everybody who posted their experiences here.

I successfully used imapsync to move a large mailbox (40k messages, 14GB) from webfaction to opalstack. It took 70 minutes and 547MB memory.

I used @aa11's commandline and it worked as expected.

Before that I wasted a bunch of time trying to get mbsync to work, but it kept using up all my memory, and getting killed. Finally found @vsajip's comment about the relative memory use of mbsync vs imapsync.

Anyway, @sean I do think you should update the official guidelines to at least mention the potential memory problems with mbsync and some basic instructions for imapsync usage.

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