My IMAP cheat sheet

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When I want to check if an IMAP server is working properly, I telnet it and run basics commands. Here are (IMAP) commands that I keep using.

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Migrate your IMAP data

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On my way to move from Zarafa to SOGo, I needed a way to migrate my e-mail between the two systems. Both provides IMAP capabilites and that’s the service I’m gonna use to move the data. You can either copy/move the e-mail manually using your favorite IMAP client or automate the migration using imapsync.

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Push DNS domain to OpenVPN clients

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If I don’t specify anything, OpenVPN pushes the openvpn domain to my (Mac) client. This makes short name resolution buggy. To avoid FQDN resolution when connecting to my LAN servers, I specify the DNS domain my VPN client should be part of:

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Highlight your logs

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Logs are great. Logs are cool. Logs are helpful. But logs are monochrome. Unless you ask the camel to colorize them:

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Search Active Directory from the desktop

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That day, at work, I had to check if an application has been implemented as it should have been. The application was supposed to use Active Directory groups to filter users access to some data. I’m no admin on my desktop ; but I had to find a “standard” way to query the corporate Active Directory. Here’s the trick.

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