[Dovecot] Incoming mails + remote backup

Brian Candler B.Candler at pobox.com
Thu Apr 8 11:36:06 EEST 2010


On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 02:35:20PM +0100, Brian Candler wrote:
> > I have tried with imapsync and able to transfer single mail account to
> > remote server. Is there a way to transfer whole server's mail account using
> > imapsync? 
> 
> I don't think so, not without some major frigs; you'd need the login
> credentials of each user to establish the imap connections.

Actually, I just found out about this:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/MasterUsers

However I still think you'd need to sync each user's mailbox individually.
Maybe some clever tricks like monitoring the filesystem with inotify could
make it happen on-demand.


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