SOLVED Migrating of Email inboxes from CPanel to SOGo

[gofaniyi]

Hi, I trying to move my organisation from managing emails on CPanel to SOGo groupware. I have successfully installed SOGo on Cloudron and can create users/email accounts for all users. Can anyone help with how to migrate the inboxes into SOGo? I will appreciate any lead or direction to solve this issue.

Regards.

[nebulon]

So far we had a good experience with using the imapsync tool to sync full inboxes for users.

[gofaniyi]

@nebulon Thanks for the swift response. I will try the imapsync tool.

[nebulon]

There is a work-in-progress guide how to use it against gmail at https://cloudron.io/documentation/guides/mail/ since it requires a few special attributes, maybe it is useful for you as well.

[gofaniyi]

@nebulon Thanks for the assistance so far. I am having issues getting the IMAP server and port being used by SOGo. Although I understand the mail app is running on another docker container but how can the Imapsync tool use this same configuration.

[nebulon]

The imapsync tool will work as an external client, just like any mail application like thunderbird. Basically the details about ports and connection type from https://cloudron.io/documentation/email/#accessing-cloudron-email have to used. Note that apps like sogo, which run on the localhost network on the server itself, use different ports.

[gofaniyi]

@nebulon I finally got to make the imapsync tool work. Thanks for the help all the way.

[gofaniyi]

@nebulon I actually didn't need to specify any port. I just referenced the subdomain "my.*" on which cloudron is installed, and it worked like magic. Thanks again for the assistance. Although, I had to install so many dependencies - libraries on my Linux server to get the imapsync library to work. Here is a link to the resolution https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync/issues/153#issuecomment-429656258

[nebulon]

Actually, the next time, if you run any linux distribution on your pc, then I would recommend to install imapsync there and do the one-time syncing, this avoids having to install additional packages alongside of Cloudron on that server.