Jan Valvekens wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to move mail folders from one mail account to another mail account on the same server. Moving the folders via my mail client (Thunderbird) takes a long time. Therefore I wondered whether it's not possible to simply move the files on the server itself. If I unsubscribe to the folders in my source account, then move the folder and subscribe to the folders in my target account: will that work?
AFAIK it should work, at least with Maildir format - if you have enough storage space on the server, you can test it by copying the files (directories) instead of moving them.
Or you can try using doveadm - doveadm mailbox create to create the folders in destination mailbox and then doveadm move to move messages from source to destination account (provided your mail accounts share the same UID and GID on the server.)
See wiki
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Mailbox http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Move