[Dovecot] Importing emails from mounted NFS to dovecot using doveadm

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 14:05 -0300, Alex Baule wrote:
> 
> userdb {
>         driver = static
>         args = uid=mail gid=mail home=/storage/gss/emexis/messages/%d/%n
> allow_all_users=yes
> }
> 
> 
> but my emails to import in NFS i cant change the UID-GID to mail:mail,
> because is in use by another IMAP  (in one machine uid X is different from
> another machine)
> 
> There is a way to import emails with doveadm without change the owner from
> my emails to import ? 

Dovecot would then have to read mails using one UID and write them using
another UID. It would have to run as root to do that.. So, nope, no good
way to do this. You could cp the mails to /tmp first and chown there.