I am still on my quest for a quick way to move mail from a live Maildir system to a 'soon to be live' sdbox system.
I copy Maildir to new system using: rsync -ar --times hoho4:/home/bobgus/Maildir/ /home/bobgus/Maildir
Then I convert from Maildir to sdbox with: dsync mirror maildir:~/Maildir
Then I copy more messages from live system using rsync Then I do the 'dsync mirror maildir:~/Maildir' again
There were only a few messages that were copied over in the 2nd rsync pass and it went quickly, but the 2nd dsync pass is taking a long time.
Also, I see strange directories in the sdbox directory (see below)
Is this normal? Why is it taking a long time? (debug is set..?) See dovecot -n below
Thanks for your time
Bob G
[bobgus@hoho0 ~]$ du -h sdbox 4.5G sdbox/mailboxes/Sent_09e4633955496151c51a0000ba55d82c/dbox-Mails 4.5G sdbox/mailboxes/Sent_09e4633955496151c51a0000ba55d82c 8.0K sdbox/mailboxes/Apple Mail To Do_0ee4633955496151c51a0000ba55d82c/dbox-Mails 12K sdbox/mailboxes/Apple Mail To Do_0ee4633955496151c51a0000ba55d82c 358M sdbox/mailboxes/Drafts/dbox-Mails 358M sdbox/mailboxes/Drafts 4.5G sdbox/mailboxes/INBOX_f9e3633955496151c51a0000ba55d82c/dbox-Mails 4.5G sdbox/mailboxes/INBOX_f9e3633955496151c51a0000ba55d82c 88K sdbox/mailboxes/Important/dbox-Mails 92K sdbox/mailboxes/Important ... ...
[bobgus@hoho0 ~]$ dovecot -n # 2.1.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.8.5-201.fc18.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 1000 first_valid_uid = 1000 mail_debug = yes mail_location = sdbox:~/sdbox managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / } passdb { args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0777 } user = root } service imap-login { vsz_limit = 128 M } service imap { vsz_limit = 768 M } service managesieve-login { vsz_limit = 128 M } service managesieve { vsz_limit = 768 M } ssl = required ssl_cert =