Moving Mail via IMAP from Account to Another

Most of the hosting providers these days provide for IMAP access to your mailbox.
This is great, but what if you want to move messages from one IMAP account to another?
We wrote this little tool for it: imap-move.

The IMAP Move tool was written with a few, very specific, intended purposes but there could be others.

1. Archive messages from IMAP into a local directory
2. Move message from one Mailbox to another Mail Account

The tool keeps track of the moved message (by mail message ID) so it can be run over and over on the same source mailbox w/o having to repeat it's work - this can save time when you have 40k+ messages.

List the Source Folders/Labels

imap-move.php -s imap-ssl://user@domain:password@imap.gmail.com:993/ --list

Source: user@domain
01 Follow up; 0 messages 0 bytes
02 INBOX; 1080 messages 108104263 bytes
03 Misc; 0 messages 0 bytes
04 Priority; 0 messages 0 bytes
05 [Gmail]; skip [container only]
06 [Gmail]/All Mail; skip [skip list]
07 [Gmail]/Drafts; skip [skip list]
08 [Gmail]/Sent Mail; skip [skip list]
09 [Gmail]/Spam; skip [skip list]
10 [Gmail]/Starred; skip [skip list]
11 [Gmail]/Trash; skip [skip list]
11 Folders, 1080 messages, 108104263 bytes

Copy to Local Directory

Please note, this is not a MAILDIR (or, at least I don't think it is)

imap-move.php \
  -s imap-ssl://user@domain:password@imap.gmail.com:993/ \
  --copy /path/to/storage

Copy one IMAP Account to Another

This can take a long time, the application has a lot of spew, maybe use |tee or something.

imap-move.php \
  -s imap-ssl://user@domain:password@imap.gmail.com:993/ \
  -t imap-ssl://noob@domain:password@imap.gmail.com:993/ \
  --move \
  --copy

A Week without Flash

Adobe Flash is a flaming pile of crap.
Firstly: it's got loads of security issues and consumes hella memory (>=100M!).
Additionally: ads and tracking issues, impact on web-surfing performance, &c.

So starting Monday of this week we to a (seemingly) dramatic step - removed Flash from our systems.
Not use using FlashBlock (which is awesome!), not just disabling the Plug-In (also an option); fully gone.

Must say, I've hardly noticed the difference.

Many pages, especially on ad-ridden sites (looking at you Cheeseburger), load much faster.

Adobe Flash Fail Sites

Not everything was great. To watch YouTube we had to enable their HTML5 beta.
Also, some functionality of both Google Analytics and Google Finance depend on Adobe.
Lots of other stuff does too.

Important to Remove

If, like us, you want to see the death of flash!, start removing it.
This way, we can start to skew the analytics numbers to show less and less browser support.

Old, crappy technologies don't die out on their own, we have to actively kill them.