cannot see my mails

[Aki Tuomi]

> On 26/04/2021 14:38 Jean-Max Reymond <jmreymond at ckr-solutions.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> Le 26/04/2021 à 13:31, Aki Tuomi a écrit :
> > 
> >> On 26/04/2021 14:28 Jean-Max Reymond <jmreymond at ckr-solutions.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>   
> >> Le 26/04/2021 à 13:24, Yassine Chaouche a écrit :
> >>> Le 4/26/21 à 10:22 AM, Jean-Max Reymond a écrit :
> >>>   > After a change of server
> >>>
> >>> When you changed servers, did you copy the contents of (probably)
> >>> /var/vmail/ from the old server to the new server ? this is usually
> >>> where e-mails are stored.
> >>>
> >>> You can also use imap-sync from old to new server. This should
> >>> automatically transfer your old mail there (if old server is still
> >>> operationnal)
> >>
> >> yep, the 144 GB of mails are copied. The correct owner is mail:mail.
> >> Database posfixadmin is copied and authentification by sql works
> >> fine.dovecot does not report any issues, postfix works like a charm. I
> >> have deleted for only one mailbox, the dovecot files but  no changes.
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> Jean-Max Reymond
> >> CKR Solutions Open Source https://www.ckr-solutions.com
> > 
> > Does output of `doveadm user your-user-name` match with where you copied all your mails to?
> > 
> > Aki
> > 
> 
> # doveadm user  jmreymond at normaal.fr
> field	value
> uid	8
> gid	8
> home	/home/Mails/jmreymond at normaal.fr/
> mail	maildir:~/Maildir
> maildir	jmreymond at normaal.fr/
> 
>   # ls -ld /home/Mails/jmreymond at normaal.fr/*
> drwx------ 2 mail mail 4096 Mar 26 07:12 
> /home/Mails/jmreymond at normaal.fr/cur
> drwx------ 3 mail mail 4096 Nov  8  2014 
> /home/Mails/jmreymond at normaal.fr/mail
> drwx------ 8 mail mail 4096 Apr 26 13:24 
> /home/Mails/jmreymond at normaal.fr/Maildir
> drwx------ 2 mail mail 4096 Apr 26 11:12 
> /home/Mails/jmreymond at normaal.fr/new
> -rw------- 1 mail mail   18 Jun 10  2019 
> /home/Mails/jmreymond at normaal.fr/subscriptions
> drwx------ 2 mail mail 4096 Apr 26 11:12 
> /home/Mails/jmreymond at normaal.fr/tmp
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jean-Max Reymond
> CKR Solutions Open Source https://www.ckr-solutions.com

home	/home/Mails/jmreymond at normaal.fr/
mail	maildir:~/Maildir

this is what matters, so dovecot expects to see your maildir structure under

/home/Mails/jmreymond at normaal.fr/Maildir/

Aki