v2.3.17 - dsync says invalid option -- E

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Oct 29, 2021, at 8:54 PM, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:
> On Oct 29, 2021, at 7:30 PM, Scott Ruckh <dovecot at gemneye.org> wrote:
>> On 2021-10-29 12:05, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I've got some scripts that archive off mail that stopped working with
>>> 2.3.17. Specifically this worksin 2.3.16:
>>> sudo -n /usr/local/bin/dsync -u dluke -m Sent -o
>>> mail_location=mbox:~/tmp/ mirror maildir:~/Maildir/
>>> but fails on 2.3.17 with the following error message:
>>> dsync: invalid option -- E
>> 
>> I don't use dsync, but is mirror a command?  
> 
> it used to be :)
> 
>> Has mirror been replaced with sync?
> 
> Maybe? I wouldn't expect it to (intentionally) change in a patch release, though.

FWIW, I don't actually need dsync for this - a simple script to export the maildir as an mbox works fine.
-- 
Daniel J. Luke