[Dovecot] processing Dovecot maildirs with shell scripts

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 23:52 +0200, M. Fioretti wrote:
> Dovecot only sees the INBOX* folders. Under these constraints I'm
> safe, am I not?  Also, since all the file names are created by
> procmail (there is nobody else injecting email from the outside) I can
> count on them being always unique, right?

Right.

> > mv, rm and ln are always safe. Just don't ever write to new mail files
> > in new/ or cur/ directory, because then Dovecot might read partially
> > written files. That means that "cp file new/" isn't safe, but "ln file
> > new/" is.
> 
> Er.. sorry, what do you mean exactly here? where is "file" where I
> link to new? 

Whatever file. :)

> What is the complete, exact sequence of Unix commands to
> safely go from:
> 
> aux_maildir_1/new/some_file
> 
> to, say,
> 
> INBOX.one/new/some_file

If you want to move, then it's simply

mv aux_maildir_1/new/some_file INBOX.one/new/some_file

The important thing is that you don't use "cp".
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