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November 2025

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doveadm sync -1 -R only downloads Inbox but not Sent Items
by r.barclay＠habmalnefrage.de 02 Nov '25

02 Nov '25

Hi, When my free mail provider mailbox runs out of free space, I have my local Dovecot server one-way sync that free mail mailbox and then I delete the contents of the free mail mailbox. So I can archive my emails in an "offline archive". Initially, I used "doveadm backup", but later always used: doveadm -Dv sync -u offline(a)example.org -1 -f -R imapc: At large, this works. But only during the first "backup" the "Sent" folder was synced as well. Nowdays, it only downloads the Inbox, but not my Sent Items. I tried adding the "-N" parameter, but that said: "Fatal: -N parameter requires syncing with remote host" I'm on Debian 12 and Dovecot 2.3.x: 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u1 amd64. What could I check or try? And one more question: To better understand the debug output: What is "brain M" and "brain S"? Yours, Reg

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