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modoboa / modoboa-imap-migration

An extension to ease the migration between 2 IMAP servers using offlineimap
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Can we reactivate account sync? #34

Closed stefaweb closed 5 years ago

stefaweb commented 6 years ago

Hello!

I've see that in admin panel -> identities we can stop sync clicking on the blue icon.

Is it possible to reactivate the sync ?

Sincerely,

tonioo commented 6 years ago

It is not possible for now.

stefaweb commented 6 years ago

To (re)activate the imap sync, the system can ask for the "old" imap server user password when we click on the icon.

tonioo commented 6 years ago

Don't think it is a good idea. The administrator should not know a user password, so he can't reactivate a migration. But maybe it could be done in two steps: suspend a migration (pause) or delete a migration. If suspended, a migration could be resumed since the password is still in the database.

stefaweb commented 6 years ago

In fact, I must explain the idea below my question.

We setup a new domain in modoboa. We import all accounts (we don't use imap-migration as it's difficult to ask tens of users to log on the news server to activate their account). We switch MX to the new server. ok

But some users where using IMAP on the old server (or some new messages arrived during the mx migration).

How to manage this?

I can ask users to mount their two IMAP accounts locally and manually copy their messages but it's complicated for them.

tonioo commented 6 years ago

You can let the migrations active until you're sure all users have stopped using the old server?

stefaweb commented 6 years ago

Sorry, I may not have understood everything concerning imap-migration plug.

If the user never connect to the new server GUI, the account do not exist. And if the user was created using "import" imap-migration icon is not here.

tonioo commented 6 years ago

Ok I see. So, at some point, you'll need to know user passwords otherwise you can't automate things.