[EXT] Re: doveadm expunge not expunging anymore
Sami Ketola
sami.ketola at dovecot.fi
Tue Mar 17 16:57:14 EET 2020
> On 17 Mar 2020, at 16.43, mabi <mabi at protonmail.ch> wrote:
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> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Tuesday, March 17, 2020 3:26 PM, Sami Ketola <sami.ketola at dovecot.fi> wrote:
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>> So your rsync did not preserve mail object ctimes. Dovecot uses that for internal date if correct value is not in dovecot.index.cache.
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> Oh I see, so that's quite unfortunate that rsync does not preserve the ctime. They should have a big warning in their man page...
>
> So what would be the correct process for moving/copying mails from one mailbox server to another in order to avoid this issue?
Since you were migrating dovecot->dovecot I would have just used Dsync.
Sami
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