ok user@domain.com needs to exist before any operations can be done on it.
I discovered that dovecot does not consider a virtual mailbox active until it is returned in the user database
see : doveadm user '*'
both accounts MUST be returned in the list (user@.net & user@.com)
from there it should work as expected.
i went through this with my django email user interface as the user was not being saved in the database until the django model had completing saving a new entry, thus when creating the new account i had to put a delay check in my create email account that continued to loop until django had finished it's processing, very anoying (not dovecot's issue) but i think you are facing something similiar?
it seems you might be renaming the mbox ?
again both user@.net & user@.com must exist along the way before the account(s) can be accessed.
if renaming the mbox is your intention than add the user@.com account
move should now work
then delete the user@.net account.
Happy Tuesday !!! Thanks - paul
Paul Kudla
Scom.ca Internet Services http://www.scom.ca 004-1009 Byron Street South Whitby, Ontario - Canada L1N 4S3
Toronto 416.642.7266 Main 1.866.411.7266 Fax 1.888.892.7266 Email paul@scom.ca
On 8/2/2022 6:49 AM, Simon B wrote:
I have a production Dovecot problem and although I searched the mailing lists, I could not find an answer and I hope you can give me a quick answer/pointer in the right direction.
I have mails for a user (user@domain.net mailto:user@domain.net) under /var/spool/mail/virtual/domain.net/user http://domain.net/user
and I want to move ALL the mails to /var/spool/mail/virtual/domain.com/user http://domain.com/userIf I use
#doveadm -Dv move -u user@domain.net mailto:user@domain.net Maildir:/var/spool/mail/virtual/domain.net/user http://domain.net/user Maildir:/var/spool/mail/virtual/domain.com/user http://domain.com/user ALL
I get doveadm(root): Fatal: Unknown argument MAILDIR:/var/spool/mail/virtual/domain.com/user http://domain.com/user
if I use #doveadm -Dv move -uuser@domain.net mailto:user@domain.net Maildir:/var/spool/mail/virtual/domain.net/user http://domain.net/user /var/spool/mail/virtual/domain.com/user http://domain.com/userALL
doveadm(root): Fatal: Unknown argument /var/spool/mail/virtual/domain.com/user http://domain.com/user
What the hell am I doing wrong!? :)
Thanks.
Simon
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