On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 15:22 -0800, jdow wrote: > From: "Anne Wilson" <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Although the .fetchmailrc that I'm using for testing is a section from a > > working one on the old server, I'm getting what appears to be socket > > errors. I've googled and found lots of similar questions, but no > > answers. This is what happens: > > > > fetchmail --verbose --keep > > fetchmail: 6.2.5.5 querying mailbox.co.uk (protocol POP3) at Sun 22 Jan > > 2006 05:48:12 PM GMT: poll started > > fetchmail: 6.2.5.5 querying mailbox.co.uk (protocol POP3) at Sun 22 Jan > > 2006 05:48:12 PM GMT: poll completed > > fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET) > > fetchmail: normal termination, status 2 > > > > This is the .fetchmail rc for that account: > > > > set logfile "~/fetchmail.log" > > > > poll mailbox.co.uk > > proto pop3 port 124 > > via localhost > > user "pop3.mailbox.co.uk:myaccount" > > pass "mypass" > > is anne@xxxxxxxxxxx fetchall > > > > Nothing is being written to ~/fetchmail.log. > > > > I know there is one test email in that mailbox - I've checked it by > > webmail. > > > > Can anyone help, please? > > OK, after reading this it is quite obvious you don't understand how > imap works. Fetchmail is not the right tool for this job, or at least > it will be a royal pita to use. > > There is a solution. Now, I'm doing this from my viewpoint in Outlook > Express on an XP machine connected to the Linux machine. With OE the > task is really simple. With other tools YMMV. > > What I do is create two accounts in OE. One for each machine. I create > all the IMAP folders on the second machine that already exist on the > first machine. Then I highlight all the contents of each folder in order > and copy them to the corresponding folder on the second machine. With > enough boring folder pair copies it's done and Bob's your uncle. > > (I really SHOULD read back to see the original question sometimes.) ---- that is a really low tech solution that's workable for one mailbox. imapsync is a terrific tool. copies entire user stuff from one imap server to another and preserves the IMAP flags. imapsync is simple to download, compile, install & configure. If however the server/user id's are the same on both machines, you could probably just rsync or tar a copy across the 2 computers. Craig
