Since I am using dovecot I do not have courier installed, but Courier had a very handy tool for making maildir folders called maildirmake which I used in some automated backup scripts. How do I duplicate maildirmake in dovecot?
for example:
#!/bin/bash # v1.2a Testing for new dovecot install
# Archive mail from folders without [0-9]{4} Maildirs # after they are 21 days old to a yearly folder
MDIR="$HOME/Maildir"
MDM="/usr/local/bin/maildirmake"
YEAR=/usr/local/bin/gdate -d "last month" '+%Y'
echo "The Year is $YEAR..."
OIFS=$IFS IFS=" "
for I in find $MDIR -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d| egrep -v "[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]"; do
MYDIR="${I}"
TBASE=basename $MYDIR
# if [ ! $TBASE == "Maildir" ]; then
TDIR=dirname $MYDIR
TARGET="${TDIR}/.zz${TBASE}.${YEAR}"
# echo "$MYDIR $TARGET"
if [ -d "$MYDIR/cur" ]; then
echo -n "Processing ${MYDIR} => ${TARGET}..."
if [ ! -d "${TARGET}" ]; then
echo ""
echo -n "WARNING ${TARGET} does not exist. invoking $MDM ${TARGET}..."
$MDM "${TARGET}"
fi
if [ -d "${TARGET}" ]; then
# echo "$TARGET does exist, moving files"
find ${MYDIR}/cur -type f -ctime +21 -exec mv {} ${TARGET}/cur/ \;
echo "done."
else
echo "$TARGET does not exist"
fi
fi
# fi
done
IFS=$OIFS
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