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

[David Varela]

Thanks Steffen,

Yes, the old Maildir contains cur and new with email in each.  The manager's
maildir looks like:

Maildir
	/new
	/cur
	/tmp
	/.INBOX.subfolder
		/new
		/cur
		/tmp
	/.INBOX.usr_XYZ.usrFolder
		/new
		/cur
		/tmp
		/.INBOX.subfolder(s)
 
I tried to copy OldMaildir/cur to NewMaildir/.INBOX.usr_XYZ.usrFolder/cur
but the MUA generates errors that it could not update headers and the IMAP
server severed the connection.  In addition, the MUA does not display the
subfolders for the old maildir although they are listed on the server.

Thanks,

David

-----Original Message-----
From: Steffen Kaiser [mailto:skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de] 
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 11:38 PM
To: David Varela
Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Nee assistance with migrating/copying a virtual
user's maildir to another virtual user

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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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