[Dovecot] Nee assistance with migrating/copying a virtual user's maildir to another virtual user

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, David Varela wrote:

> I tried the command provided by Steffan, however, although it runs and moves
> the files beginning with . to the destination maildir other directories and
> files in the previous users' maildir remained in the original location, and
> messages in the new users' maildir are not visible in the client.

does the old Maildir still contains new/cur folders? move them into 
.usr_XYZ.INBOX; Maildir/new and Maildir/cur hold the INBOX.

The manager's Maildir should look like:

Maildir
  /new
  /cur
  /tmp
  /.Folder1.subfolder2...
    /new
    /cur
    /tmp
  /.usr_XYZ.usrFolder
    /new
    /cur
    /tmp

If the manager has a Maildir/.usr_XYZ.usrFolder/cur and 
Maildir/.usr_XYZ.usrFolder/new and at least one file is in either new or 
cur _and_ the manager is either displaying all folders or has 
usr_XYZ.usrFolder subscribed, this messages are to display in the MUA.

sometimes one need to refresh the list of folders or something like that.

Do the filesystem permission fit?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org] On
> Behalf Of David Varela
> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 7:13 AM
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Nee assistance with migrating/copying a virtual
> user's maildir to another virtual user
>
> Thanks Steffan,
>
> I will test the move at the filesystem level.
>
> The virtual user still exists, although I have changed her password.
> Dovecot is configured to authenticate users via LDAP to Active Directory.
> If there's a better method of moving maildir via Dovecot rather than through
> the filesystem I would like to do so.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steffen Kaiser [mailto:skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de]
> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 12:33 AM
> To: David Varela
> Cc: 'Dovecot Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Nee assistance with migrating/copying a virtual
> user's maildir to another virtual user
>
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> On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, David Varela wrote:
>
>> I am trying to move/copy a virtual user's maildir to another virtual
>> user but am running into problems with dsync and doveadm.  I'm trying
>> to move the maildir of a user who is no longer with the company to a
> manager's maildir.
>>
>> For doveadm I am using the command:
>
>> doveadm move -u scavenaugh at lamontanita.coop
>> jhenning at lamontanita.coop/INBOX/scavenaugh INBOX ALL
>>
>> The error is:
>>
>> doveadm(scavenaugh at lamontanita.coop): Error: user
>> scavenaugh at lamontanita.coop: Auth USER lookup failed
>>
>> /var/log/dovecot.log shows:
>>
>> passdb doesn't support lookups, can't verify user's existence
>
> The user is gone from passdb already, right? Re-create the entry with
> another password or password-locked.
>
> Or, move the directories on filesystem level, e.g. something like:
>
> cd user-Maildir-basedirectory
> rename 's/\A(\.[^.].*)/.usr_XYZ$1/' .[^.]* mkdir -p
> .usr_XYZ.INBOX/{new,cur,tmp} touch .usr_XYZ.INBOX/maildirfolder chown -R
> vmail:vmail .usr_XYZ.INBOX mv .usr_XYZ* manage-Maildir-basedirectory
>
> .usr_XYZ is a prefix for a mail folder hierarchie identifying the user.
> vmail:vmail are the necessary Unix owner/group for the newly created
> directories with mkdir two lines above. The rename command renames all
> directory entries that start with a single dot to have the prefix, that
> should be directories only in a Maildir.
>
> - --
> Steffen Kaiser
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Steffen Kaiser
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