Mailbox access delegation for IMAP Mail migration

HItesh2006

• July 20, 2016 00:16

Dear Memebers, We are planning to Migrate thousands of users from cPanel to Microsoft email platform so we need one User who can be used as Service account to migrate all mailboxes data. (Delegated user which can copy all mailbox ), we cannot collect end user passwords. How can we create such user. Kindly help Urgently !!! We are using : o cPanel version: 54.0 o Roundcube version: 1.0.6.cp2 also, how can we do mass password reset for all users ? Highly appreciate any help here. Thank you.

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  cPanelMichael

  • July 20, 2016 16:55

  Hello, Could you provide some more information on how you are copying the email data? The "root" user should have access to the entire system. As far as the email passwords, there's no way to automatically update the email passwords for all accounts. However, you could develop a script that finds all email accounts on the system and updates the passwords for those accounts using the following UAPI functions: Thank you.

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  HItesh2006

  • July 21, 2016 14:28

  Hello, Could you provide some more information on how you are copying the email data? The "root" user should have access to the entire system. As far as the email passwords, there's no way to automatically update the email passwords for all accounts. However, you could develop a script that finds all email accounts on the system and updates the passwords for those accounts using the following UAPI functions: Thank you.

  
  Thank you so Much for your response!! We are planning to use IMAP protocol to migrate mailbox data. For IMAP the exchange online will need all source email addresses and a service account that has access to that mailbox. so that Exchange can simulate a user session and download all emails. Would you have any idea if the root user can login to WEBMAIL for any user mailbox account (pardon my ignorance about cPanel)? also, is there any step by step guide to a script or Command to reset email password for 3000 users hosted on cPanel ? Your response is highly appreciated thank you. regards, Hitesh

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  cPanelMichael

  • July 25, 2016 23:21

  Would you have any idea if the root user can login to WEBMAIL for any user mailbox account (pardon my ignorance about cPanel)?

  
  No, it's not possible to use the root username or password to directly access webmail for an individual email account. However, a cPanel user can access webmail for individual email accounts after authenticating directly in the cPanel interface. Note that authenticating in the cPanel interface first is required for this to work, so it might not help for the custom script you want to develop.

  also, is there any step by step guide to a script or Command to reset email password for 3000 users hosted on cPanel ?

  
  Unfortunately, there's no official guide for this, other than the UAPI documentation referenced in the previous response. You may need to consult with a system administrator for assistance with developing a script that uses those UAPI functions. Thank you.

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