imapsync/CREDITS

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# $Id: CREDITS,v 1.115 2008/08/27 11:56:52 gilles Exp gilles $


If you want to make a donation to the author, Gilles LAMIRAL:

a) you can use the imapsync wishlist :
  http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/1C9UNDIH3P7R7/
  (Use the lowest postal cost)

b) If you can read french, please use the following wishlist :
  http://amazon.fr/gp/registry/wishlist/37RZF7PPCD7YL
  (books will be send with free postal cost)

c) its paypal account gilles.lamiral@laposte.net

Here are the persons who helped me to develop imapsync.
Feel free to tell me if a name is missing or if you want
to remove one.

I thank very much all of these people.

Daniel Skinner
Made me write the FAQ entry about offlineimap and
read its documentation.

Ploc
Made me write the option --idatefromheader

Pierre-Emmanuel Andr<64>
Success from dovecot 1.0.0 to Archiveopteryx 2.10
Success from dovecot 1.0.0 to Archiveopteryx 3.0.0

Kevin Harriss
Pushed me to find (documentation and source) and solve 
the authuser method with uw-imap. FAQ entry.

Scott Pedigo
Contributed by giving the book
"Smart and Gets Things Done"


Don Jackson
Contributed by giving the book
"The Back of the Napkin"

Joschua Penix
Contributed by giving the book
"Programming Collective Intelligence"

Bertram N Shure
Contributed by giving the book
"Hackers and Painters".

Simon Heimlicher
Gave a patch to avoid non-selectable folders.

St<EFBFBD>phane Besnard
Success from Serveur Domino IMAP4 Edition France  4.61 Code
to Cyrus IMAP4 v2.3.7 server ready

Drew McLellan
Contributed by giving the book
"Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams"

Nirdosh Shah
Contributed by giving the books
"The Best Software Writing I"
"True Cuban Bass"
"The Latin Bass Book"

Philip Jocks
Contributed by giving the book
"User Interface Design for Programmers"

Karl McCurdo
Contributed by giving the book
"Joel on software and on diverse..."

David Breiland
Contributed by giving the book
"Mastering Perl"
 
Marek Mahut (Fedora Project)
- Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.12-Invoca-RPM-2.2.12-8.1.RHEL4 to Zimbra Collaboration Suite 5.0.4.
- Bug report about "parse_headers want an ARRAY ref"
- Patch fixing "parse_headers want an ARRAY ref" (finally patch failed)
- Packaged imapsync for Fedora imapsync-1.249-1.fc8
- Gave the book "Intermediate Perl"
- Thanked for imapsync
No one did so much, and in one email!


Blake Heinemann
Contributed by giving the book
"Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook"

Nathan Mills
Contributed by giving the book
"Mapping Hacks"

Patrick Dayton (Medicus Insurance Compagny)
Contributed by giving the book
"Perl Hacks"


Daniel Kohn
Contributed by giving the book
"Combinatorial Optimization: Algorithms and Complexity"


Cvitkovich Andres
Gave a patch to implement
  * --pidfile option.
  * --tmpfile  option.
  * --skipheaderinfolder option.
Had a successful 550000 users migration with imapsync !

Scott Musser
Contributed by giving the book
"The mathematics of Juggling"

George Henry Lenzer
Contributed by giving the book
"Higher-Order Perl"

Bryce Schober
Gave FAQ entry "imapsync ssl on win32".
Gave FAQ entry "synchronisation to gmail"

Arnt Gulbrandsen
Found FAQ bug "Flags have to begin with a \ character."
An imap server (archiveopteryx) coder that test imapsync,
very rare.

Wonko (http://wonko.com/)
Wrote a good ruby script doing the same thing than imapsync.

Scott Musser
Suggested the --delete2folders option.

Axel Rau 
Success from courier-imap 3.0.3 to archiveopteryx 2.03

Martin Wunderli
Contributed by giving the book
"Computers and Intractability". Garey.

Huelbe Garcia
Contributed by giving the book
"The Shoelace Book" by Burkard Polster.

Miron Cuperman
Contributed by giving the book 
"Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think"

Demian Rootring
Failure story with dbmail 0.9 (as a "from" server)

Patrick Ben Koetter
Gave link to imapmigrate   : http://sourceforge.net/projects/cyrus-utils/
Will wrote an article about imapsync, imapmigrate, offline-imap
in German Linuxmagazin http://www.linuxmagazin.de/ January 2008

Julien MARY
From Dovecot 0.99.14 to Courier 3.0.8 (success)

John Owens
FAQ "Does imapsync retain the \Answered and $Forwarded flags?"
From ??? imap server to gmail. Success or failure ?

Lorenz Wallner
Had success from "GMX IMAP4 StreamProxy" to Courier-IMAP.

Stan Larson
Contributed by giving the  book "Biting and Humorous Tales of a 
Software Engineering Manager".

Daniel I. Meiron
Contributed by giving the  book "Asterisk: The future of Telephony"

Todd Minnella
Contributed by giving the  book "Agile and Iterative Development".

Bal<EFBFBD>zs B<>r<EFBFBD>ny
Suggested to update documentation about --authuserX:
avoid use of --authmechX with  --authuserX

Peer Heinlein
Suggested the --justlogin* options.

Chris Weinhaupl
Had problems from courier to zimbra
(failure story ?)

Peer Heinlein
Had problem with *AsterixFolder

Derek Diget
Suggested --tmpdir

Asbj<EFBFBD>rn Clemmensen
Gave "Deerfield VisNetic MailServer 5.8.6" imap server.
Found a bug about internal date in Deerfield.
Made me fix date with Date::Manip
Finally had success from Deerfield to Dovecot ?

Marc Laporte
Gave me 30$ and made me register a paypal account.

Clark Allan
Had \RECENT flag bug problem.
Tried to migrate from mailenable to Zimbra.
Futur will tell if imapsync can be a good boy for mailenable.

Kevin Henrikson (Zimbra)
Gave me many books.    

Paolo Oopla
FAQ about "99.8% cpu right after start" and --noauthmd5 solution.

Marc Jauvin
Found 1.217 slower than 1.182 (80s -> 250s, 2400 mail, 90MB)

Neil Brown
Made a rpm package of imapsync and gave the 
imapsync.spec file.  

Olaf Menkens
Valent<EFBFBD> Jov<6F>
Had problem with flags and revision 1.201

Heiko Kirsch
Found the 24 characters bug in username.
In fact this is 76 in Mail::IMAPClient, md5, MIME::Base64::encode.

Morten W. Petersen
Asked for the default behavior.
All folders, recursively.

Tobias M<>ller
Found the buddy max inversion mistake in
the documentation.

Gavin Atkinson
MailEnable under Windows to Dovecot under FreeBSD
Not really a success. Just a one run copy.
MailEnable does not give its headers.

Simon Matter
Had problem with append_string()
from Cyrus-IMAPd to Lotus Notes 7.0.2

Samuel Graenacher (Simon's friend)
Wrote a patch to add flags and date to append_file()

Foo Kok Wai
MDaemon 9.5.4 success
Mercury 4.1   success
UW v12.264    success

Enzo Michelangeli
Made me try a second LOGIN login on first login failure.

Carlos Roldan
Made me change login() to login2()
SmarterMail success

Florin Andrei 
Suggested to remove the bad behavior with INBOX
and --prefix2 (prefix2 was ignored)
Had a good discussion about memory in cyrus ml.

Tashfeen Bhimdi
IO::Socket::SSL have to be optional
PLAIN without Capability AUTH=PLAIN is needed.

Jalal
Found --include and --include unuseful
Wrote --include or  --include patch

Daniel Ammann
Made me finally write the --folderrec option.
Gave OpenMail to Cyrus success

Nicola De Marco
Had authenticate problems with PLAIN
and gave me a beautiful donation with the imapsync wishlist.

Arunav Mandal
Success ?
from Domino IMAP4 Server Release 7.0.2
to   Scalix IMAP server 10.0.1.3

Eric Yellin
Failure from Imail 7.04 (not sure)

Barry W. Hickey
Success from Microsoft Exchange 5.5 to Zimbra 4.0.4

Damjan Perenic
Success from cyrus to notes.
Pb with big messages.

Tom Allison
Had problem with dovecot and dbmail
Message-Id Message-ID. So imapsync is 
now case insensitive with header keywords.

David Abrahams
Had problem with flags, suggested flag output.

RISKO Gergely
Maintain imapsync debian package.

Marten Lehmann
Made me talk about imapsync cpu and memory hungriness.
Made me remove the exit(1) in case "No CAPABILITY for AUTHENTICATE"
Found bug : imapsync does not delete messages immediately
after a successful transfer but the next run.

Paul Fisher
Bug fix when "user<NUL>authuser<NUL>password" is over 76 characters
encode_base64 and \n

Christian Michallek
Success with "David Tobit V8" to dbmail 2.0.9

Robert Penz
Had problem to migrate from Groupwise 7.0.
Finally he migrated via outlook connector.
(It is an imapsync failure).

Doug Gorton
Fixed bug about variable mess_size_total_skipped.

Jonathan Doughty
Found problem aboutthe md5 file on linux-france.org

Chris Toledo
Had problems from iPlanet 5.2 to Groupwise 7.0.
Solved them with GW7 pack1. See the imapsync FAQ.

Steven Ledwith
Success from Rockliffe Mailsite 5.3.11 to dovecot-1.0-0.beta2.7 
Made me write the --regexflag option.

J.R. Taisto
For syntax faults detection in the documentation.

Stephen Weir
Made a successful migration from
"Scalix" to "Eudora WorldMail v2"
Gave the good option for success (see FAQ)

Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Gave a jumbo patch adding
--authuser
--authmech
--ssl
and many improvments.


Adam Kosmin
Succeed to migrate from cyrus with an admin
account and gave us the example. (see FAQ).
--authuser1 option

Kurt Hoffmann
Had a pb with a big message on Zimbra-IMAP.
Did he finally succed ? Yes
"a stupid setting in Zimbra that restricts the size of 
emails that can be uploaded via IMAP"

Robert Terzi
Seems to have the mbox vs Maildir/ problem
and gave the --regexmess 's/\AFrom \w  .*\n//'
solution.
Had the "Word too large" bug with old UW and
big folder. Made me add --split1 and --split2 options.


Subbarao & Prasanthi Punnamaraju
Asked how to move emails from InBox to a sub-folder.

Sven Havemann
Moved from Braunschweig to Graz and asked
how to move Braunschweig mail sorted into 
a folder INBOX.Braunschweig
See FAQ.

Vincent Deffontaines
Made me talk about --exclude 'fold1|fold2|f3'
Gave a patch for multiple  --exclude 

Jim Rosenberg
Had problems with dbmail 2.0.7.
Gave up too early with bad feedback :-)

Thomas Stegbauer 
Suggested the mailing list creation.

Stan Novogroudski
Made me wrote the learn/subscribe script example.

Ren<EFBFBD> Pfeiffer
Paid me 100 euros for just an imapsync success story
and little help from me. Ren<65> also wrote a LinuxGazette
article about imapsync in march 2006

Mike
Gave "Mdaemon 8.1" success story.
(Pb with folders containing 2000 messages,
had to split them to 800 messages)

Nicolai Rasmussen
Suggested the --minage option and asked
a friend of him to code it.
I made it compatible with --maxage too.

Marcos Sungaila
Reported the "do not consider namespace" bug 
once again. And I fixed it. I think.

Michael Menge
Patch made --regextrans2 a multiple option

Arnaud Launay
Bug about --expunge12 (no option code)
	 
Kirk Averett
Bug about --subscribed option. I stupidly
commented a map line in release 1.138

Evert Mouw
Gave the "Term::ReadKey" module dependency problem.

Roy Hoobler
Problems with big folders.
Bug about message sizes.

Michael Muenz
"no errors (about 80 users)
from Exchange 5.5 to CyrusIMAPd 2.2.12"

Javier Gomez
Failure with MailEnable version 1.54

Mark Waters
Had a problem with --maxsize --skipsize (a bug)

Costa Tsaousis
Had a problem with a huge mailbox (20000 messages)

Scott Glenn
Found the bug about --regexmess applied only on the first
message.

Dag-Erling Sm<53>rgrav
Gave a patch to add --buffersize option.
Found a bug about acls sync.
Gave a patch that broke my acls...

Brian Cunnie
Write good French and a patch
to allow password input on command line 
if none by options --password nor --passfile

James Eborall
Gave "Samsung Contact IMAP server 8.5.0"

Lincoln Zuljewic Silva
Gave "Domino IMAP4 Server Release 5.0.7"

Dan Wang
Gave "Novell NetMail and Novell Groupwise"
Reported bug Novell NetMail flags undef


Per olof Ljungmark
Gave 
"Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 Patch 7 (built Sep 12 2001))
Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.10"

Harald A. Irmer
Huge migration with mbox format pb.
Several problems.
Gave http://home.arcor.de/armin.diehl/imapcopy/imapcopy.html link.

Aleksandar Milivojevic
Had problems with the flags arrays

Paul Dekkers
Had a problem with perl on freebsd.
Had memory problems solved by memory added.
Suggested --regexmess too, too late :-)

Jean-Michel besnard
Pb with woody, Mail::ImapClient and fetch_hash

Jamie Neil 
Gave Groupwise Novell return and howto success.
Suggested --regexmess option

Norbert Schmidt
Gave "from a Cyrus-IMAP Server to a Lotus Domino 6.5 IMAP Server".
Had a problem with Domino \\ separator.

Cliff Lipple
Gave "from an NT Server running Qualcomm 
Worldmail to a Mac OS X Server running Cyrus."

Bryce Walter
Gave "OpenWave to Imail 8.12"


David Alix
Suggested transfer the ACL.
Suggested order message transfer by uid.
Gave "Simeon Messaging Server from MessagingDirect" and
     "Sendmail Advanced Messaging Server (from Sendmail.com)"
Trying to migrate about 150 GBytes of mailstorage, 33000 mailboxes, 872 users.
Will he succeed ?

Timothy Falconer 
Documentation about option --skipheader (one time only)
Gave "Domino IMAP4 Server Release 5.0.6"
     UW "IMAP4rev1 2003.338rh"

Reed Sandberg
Gave "MDaemon 7.0.1 ---> courier-imap-2.2.1"
Gave the imapsync-undef_arrayref.diff patch.
Added and wrote option --foldersizes
Gave link http://sourceforge.net/projects/migrationtool/

Christoph Nagelreiter
Christoph ran imapsync to migrate from 
Microsoft MCIS to Cyrus IMAP.
16000 mailboxes, 15 GB.
Will he succeed ? YES !

Ivan Zilic Schmidt
Made me start the FAQ.
Suggested the --regextrans2 option.

Leon Koch
Gave Microsoft Exchange 2000 server and
Domino IMAP4 Server Release 6.5.1
Had pb with them :-) 
So I added the BUGS section about "Multiple copies".

Harald Behrens
Gave MS Exchange Server 5.5 success.
Had "Message has no header/body separator" error.

Kris Boulez
Ran imapsync from iPlanet Messaging server 5.1 to a Domino
(Notes) 6.5 server.
Suggested --skipheader --skipsize options.

Christophe Labouisse
Add a pb with dbmail headers (first blank added, sort "Received:")

William Hernandez (fromESS/PR Webmasters)
Wrote patch for --timeout
Gave IMail 7.15 new problem/success story

Wim Kerkhoff
Gave infos about mailutil.
 
Holger Mauermann
Bug about missing "AUTH=CRAM-MD5" (also copy-paste mistake in login_imap)

Kaspar Brand
Wrote code implementing options
 --include <regex>
 --exclude <regex>
 --maxsize <int>
 --maxage  <int>
and goodies (sort, no accent)
 
Devin Reade
Bug about destination separator character in source folder names.

Rasjid Wilcox
Bug about imap servers (DBmail and Bincimap) that don't support namespaces.

Dave Rose
Bug in help message about nested folders.
 
Paul Boven
Suggested --subscribe option, a better behavior and gave the patch.
Suggested --prefix1 option.
 
Tommi L<>tti
Suggested csv file loop (HUGE MIGRATION section) in pod doc.

Vincent W.S. Tam 
Suggested --subscribed option.

Eric Yung 
(Suggested --sep1 option) and tested it, and found a bug about it.

Total amount of book prices :
c \
16.47+\
26.39+\
29.95+\
33.95+\
15.61+\
11.55+\
16.49+\
16.49+\
22.00+\
26.39+\
26.39+\
19.77+\
23.60+\
19.77+\
51.70+\
19.79+\
58.38+\
13.57+\
32.70+\
29.00+\
19.00+\
26.37+\
38.60+\
16.49+\
39.10+\
28.00+\
40.00+\
18.21+\
24.95+\
31.49+\
64.50+\
32.70+\
50.40+\
22.49+\
18.21+\
29.70+\
15.96+\
13.57+\
15.61+\
11.86+\
14.95+\
12.21+\
27.50+\
59.99+\
31.20+\
40.00

=1253.02