Re: [Dovecot] Nee assistance with migrating/copying a virtual user's maildir to another virtual user

Good morning,

I tried the command provided by Steffan, however, although it runs and moves the files beginning with . to the destination maildir other directories and files in the previous users' maildir remained in the original location, and messages in the new users' maildir are not visible in the client.

Thanks,

David

-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of David Varela Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 7:13 AM To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Nee assistance with migrating/copying a virtual user's maildir to another virtual user

Thanks Steffan,

I will test the move at the filesystem level.

The virtual user still exists, although I have changed her password. Dovecot is configured to authenticate users via LDAP to Active Directory. If there's a better method of moving maildir via Dovecot rather than through the filesystem I would like to do so.

Thanks,

David

-----Original Message----- From: Steffen Kaiser [mailto:skdovecot@smail.inf.fh-brs.de] Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 12:33 AM To: David Varela Cc: 'Dovecot Mailing List' Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Nee assistance with migrating/copying a virtual user's maildir to another virtual user

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On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, David Varela wrote:

I am trying to move/copy a virtual user's maildir to another virtual user but am running into problems with dsync and doveadm. I'm trying to move the maildir of a user who is no longer with the company to a manager's maildir.

For doveadm I am using the command:

doveadm move -u scavenaugh@lamontanita.coop jhenning@lamontanita.coop/INBOX/scavenaugh INBOX ALL

The error is:

doveadm(scavenaugh@lamontanita.coop): Error: user scavenaugh@lamontanita.coop: Auth USER lookup failed

/var/log/dovecot.log shows:

passdb doesn't support lookups, can't verify user's existence

The user is gone from passdb already, right? Re-create the entry with another password or password-locked.

Or, move the directories on filesystem level, e.g. something like:

cd user-Maildir-basedirectory rename 's/\A(\.[^.].*)/.usr_XYZ$1/' .[^.]* mkdir -p .usr_XYZ.INBOX/{new,cur,tmp} touch .usr_XYZ.INBOX/maildirfolder chown -R vmail:vmail .usr_XYZ.INBOX mv .usr_XYZ* manage-Maildir-basedirectory

.usr_XYZ is a prefix for a mail folder hierarchie identifying the user. vmail:vmail are the necessary Unix owner/group for the newly created directories with mkdir two lines above. The rename command renames all directory entries that start with a single dot to have the prefix, that should be directories only in a Maildir.

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