Merge branch 'master' of github.com:jfisbein/imapcopy

Author: jfisbein

README.md

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 ========
 
 Copy recursively all email messages and folders from 1 imap account to another
+
+Installation Instructions
+-------------------------
+
+### Linux and other Unixes
+* Download the application from the repository
+* build de jar
+
+        ant build
+
+* go to target directory and get imapCopy.zip 
+* move it to your desired directory and decompress it
+* Change imapCopy.sh file mode
+
+        chmod +x imapCopy.sh
+
+#### Run as command line tool
+* Run as a command line tool:
+
+        ./imapCopy.sh sourceImapAccount targetImapAccount (ex: ./imapCopy.sh imap://peter:mypassword@foo.com imaps://peter%40gmail.com:myotherpasword@imap.gmail.com)
+      
+* Run using (very basic) Gui
+
+        ./imapCopyGui.sh
+        
+        
+### Format of the imap accounts url
+
+        {protocol}://[user:password@]{host}[:port]
+        
+Where 
+* protocol can be imap or imaps
+* user and password are optional and must be url scaped (ex: peter@gmail.com becomes peter%40gmail.com)
+* host: host of the imap server
+* port: port of the imap server