[Dovecot] doveadm move from one user's mailbox to another user's mailbox?
Ralf Hildebrandt
Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de
Wed Jan 4 16:33:01 EET 2012
* Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:
> On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 15:06 +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> > Is something along the lines:
> > doveadm move -u sourceuser destinationuser:/inbox search_query
> > possible with 2.0.16?
> >
> > I want to move mails from a backup mailbox (which has no valid
> > password assigned) to a "restore" mailbox (which *HAS* a password
> > assigned to it).
>
> I guess:
>
> doveadm import -u dest maildir:/source/Maildir "" search_query
Yes, just the other way round. It's even better, since the MOVE
operation would have REMOVED the mails from the backup. IMPORT instead
only copies what it needs.
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Ralf Hildebrandt
Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Campus Benjamin Franklin
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