Need a way to merge two mail accounts

I have a small problem that I hope someone can help me fix. I have cross posted this in the OD services forum as that is the service that I have the 'user' problem with.
Some time back I made a mistake and deleted a user using WM. This user had mail services. I had a backup of the mail folders using the mailbfr tool set. Lucky for me this backup ran just before i deleted the user.
Now this is what I did next.
I added the user again with WM withing a few mins - however I did not spell the name correctly and so I ended up with a shortname that is not correct. I added a second sort name ([email protected]) and so the mail now works in that the user can log onto imap using the previous 'second' short name and e-mail is correctly processed. As you would expect the users email mailboxs are empty as the are seen as a new users by the mailserver (due to my spelling the name wrong).
So I have two mail boxes for this user - one old with correct spelling, one new with incorrect spelling. From the outside world it all looks OK... but the user cannot access the old e-mails and over time one will get into trouble with this user haveing the wrong name.
I would like to find a way of correcting the users 'primary' shortname and combining the old and new emails together into the correct email account.
Help - how do I do this? It seems I need to fix two things - change the shortname internally in the server somehow and combine the e-mails into one account.
I could very easly delete the wrong account and create a new one with the correct spelling. But I would need to preserver the new emails that have come in since and move them into the old email account (which I assume will work Ok with the new user).
Hope all is clear. look forward to some help.

You can block port 25 at firewall/router as an easy way to prevent bounces from outside world during this process....
Delete the 2nd short name on first account. Create a new account with the correct short name, enable mail.
Use an imap client to connect to both account and copy/drag all mail from the old wrong account to the new account.
That's a nice clean way to merge mail accounts.
Now of course, the user will have a new UID... and that might cause permission headaches......
So it might be better to use an imap account to connect to the old account first, copy all mail into a local mailbox. Delete the old account. Then create a new account and set the same UID and correct short name. You could then connect to it with an imap client and drag mail back to the inbox.
Jeff

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