[Dovecot] Migrate from Maildir to mdbox

[Henrique Fernandes]

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Dsync

<http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Dsync>take a look.

[]'sf.rique


On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Henrique Fernandes <sf.rique at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yeah, i guess the right ocmando would be dsync
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> dsync get the user from mysql, with user query. I guess.
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> Are you looking to do it without any downtime ?
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> Are you getting the mail_location from mysql or in conf file ?
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> I would use dsync backup. I had some trouble using mirror when a box was
> corrupted, it messed up both sides.
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> []'sf.rique
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> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Looking at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat, I do not see
>> much
>> on how to do a migration from Maildir to mdbox. That page isn't quite
>> updated it looks.
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>> I have several domains (virtual) with the following storage layout:
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>> /var/spool/virtual/$domain.
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>> So the users have their mail stored as follows:
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>> /var/spool/virtual/domain1/$user/Maildir
>> /var/spool/virtual/domain2/$user/Maildir
>> /var/spool/virtual/domain3/$user/Maildir
>> /var/spool/virtual/domainN/$user/Maildir
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>> >From the wiki, I am told the steps to take are:
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>> 1. Set mail_location=mdbox:~/mdbox
>> 2. Run "doveadm mirror -u username maildir:~/Maildir"
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>> The instruction above confuses me because in my situation, I don't have a
>> "username" per se. dovecot-deliver knows how to figure out my usernames
>> and
>> their mail_location settings. How do I derive my "username" when users are
>> virtual, stored in MySQL back end?
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>> Again, the right command seems to rely on dsync, not "doveadm mirror".
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>> I could manually get all the values for the users for each domain and run:
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>> dysnc -u $u -o
>> "mail_location=maildir:/var/spool/virtual/domain1/$u/Maildir"
>> mirror "mdbox:/var/spool/virtual/domain1/$u/mdbox"
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>> This is so manual, especially because I have to (if I remember well)
>> create
>> /var/spool/virtual/domain1/$u/mdbox (and have the permissions right)
>> before
>> running dysnc.
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>> Is there an easier way out, perhaps??
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>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
>> Nairobi,KE
>> +254733744121/+254722743223
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>> Damn!!
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