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modoboa / modoboa-imap-migration

An extension to ease the migration between 2 IMAP servers using offlineimap
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How to use migration extension #54

Closed jamietb closed 3 years ago

jamietb commented 5 years ago

Hey,

I'm somewhat embarrassed to post this but I really don't understand the way this extension is to be used. I think my main issue is the following:-

A user from the old server logs into Modoboa using the same credentials

A new account is automatically created and a new migration task is created using the provided credentials

How does a user log in if there isn't an account already created? When I try and do this my server running modoboa doesn't allow the connection.

If it helps, I'm attempting to migrate from a mailcow install to modoboa and assumed this was the best way of doing it?

Thanks, Jamie.

tonioo commented 5 years ago

@jamietb The user which connects to the Modoboa web console must have an account on the old server, this is why you have to enable the IMAP authentication backend.