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List:       squirrelmail-users
Subject:    Re: [SM-USERS] Import data from Openwebmail
From:       "Paul Lesniewski" <paul () squirrelmail ! org>
Date:       2008-02-14 2:50:11
Message-ID: 58191e420802131850n7895cde9gf07d96d867ccf36f () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Feb 13, 2008 5:14 PM, Ken A <ka@pacific.net> wrote:
> Marcio Toledo wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I´m going from Openwebmail to Squirrel and I would like to known if it´s
> > possible to migrate data (e-mails, address books, etc) from one to other.
> 
> Openwebmail works on mbox files, so you can just drop them in if you are
> using mbox storage in your imap server, then subscribe to them. If using
> maildir you can also use mbox to maildir convert tools that are
> available.

If you are leaving the mail server alone and merely changing webmail
applications, just install SM in parallel.  It's merely an IMAP client
after all.

> Address books have to be 'fixed' them so that they are
> squirrelmail compatible, but they are both simple text files, so this
> isn't too hard.
> Openwebmail format: name@@@email@@@note
> Squirrelmail format: nick|first|last|addr|info

SM has an abook import plugin if you can get your abook data in CSV format.

> Be sure to strip any '|' from old entries!
> Calendars... similar.
> Ken
> 
> > 

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