Migrate mail_location

[Aki Tuomi]

> On 03/01/2022 10:51 hello at reox.at wrote:
> 
>  
> Hi!
> 
> I have a dovecot installation, with the following configuration:
> mail_home = /var/vmail/%d/%n
> mail_location = maildir:~
> 
> I would like to migrate the mail_location to maildir:~/mail, to get 
> around the issues described in the documentation.
> But I can not really find a good way to do that.
> I played around with doveadm sync/backup, but I can only copy everything 
> into a new location (i.e. doveadm sync maildir:~/mail), but this does 
> not really untangle the mail_home and location.
> My other idea was to migrate the maildir manually, i.e. move the maildir 
> related folders and files (new, cur, tmp, all folders starting with a 
> dot and containing itself {new,cur,tmp}, dovecot.* files, subscriptions 
> file) into the ~/mail folder, but I'm not sure if this is a safe method.
> 
> Is there any safe method to do this using dovecot tools? If the only way 
> is a offline migration, I'm fine with that.
> 
> Best,
> Sebastian

Hi!

Since you're using maildir, you can just stop dovecot, move the files, and start dovecot.

In particular, you should **not** move .dovecot.sieve directory, or dovecot-attributes (if you have used mail_attribute_dict).

It's a good idea to do testing.

Aki