Doveadm backup doesn't interpret placeholders

[James Pharaoh]

On 23/01/17 09:53, Aki Tuomi wrote:
>
> On 19.01.2017 10:49, James Pharaoh wrote:
>>
>> Dovecot version: 2.2.27
>>
>> The logical answer seems to be to provide the backup location when
>> performing the local copy for a snapshot, so I run:
>>
>> doveadm backup -A mdbox:/var/mail/mailboxes-backup/%d/accounts/%u
>
> Try doveadm -o mail_home=/var/mail/mailboxes-backup/%d/accounts/%u
> backup -A mdbox:~/

This won't work, surely, because I use a similar pattern for the source, 
basically without the "-backup" bit.

If you can confirm this is not supported I'm happy to create a patch for 
it myself, it doesn't seem like it will be very difficult.

James