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) under /var/spool/mail/virtual/ domain.net/user and I want to move ALL the mails to /var/spool/mail/virtual/domain.com/user
If I use
#doveadm -Dv move -u user@domain.net Maildir:/var/spool/mail/virtual/ domain.net/user Maildir:/var/spool/mail/virtual/domain.com/user ALL
I get doveadm(root): Fatal: Unknown argument MAILDIR:/var/spool/mail/virtual/ domain.com/user
if I use #doveadm -Dv move -u user@domain.net Maildir:/var/spool/mail/virtual/ domain.net/user /var/spool/mail/virtual/domain.com/user ALL
doveadm(root): Fatal: Unknown argument /var/spool/mail/virtual/ domain.com/user
What the hell am I doing wrong!? :)
Thanks.
Simon
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/user>If 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/user>ALL
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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On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 at 12:58, Paul Kudla (SCOM.CA Internet Services Inc.) <paul@scom.ca> wrote:
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.
Thanks Paul.
I finally got around to looking at this again, and for my own benefit, and perhaps anyone else in the future, the format that eventually worked was:
doveadm -Dv move -u user@destination.com INBOX user user @source.net MAILBOX INBOX ALL
However...
the -v option does NOT as the man page indicates produce any kind of progress counter.
-v Enables verbosity, including progress counter.
On a medium mailbox (~1000 messages) it took about 3 minutes, with no indication anything was being done until the prompt returned. Maybe I need -D -v and not -Dv?
AND,
it moved all the mails from /var/spool/mail/virtual/source.net/user/cur but none of the emails from /var/spool/mail/virtual/source.net/user/new
And I have not been able to figure how to move those...
Simon
Sounds like a boss at work. An "admin" doing off-beat SQL-like stuff on people's email. I'm a little disconcerted. I don't really use these commands myself or see a good use case for them, or the whole infrastructure built up on "doveadm" commands.
These are general purpose mailbox utilities. Something that would be much less confusing to fork off into a totally separate project independent of Dovecot. There is sifting and sorting for spam and porn and scams, but that isn't really a "dove(cot) admin" job.
https://wiki.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm https://wiki.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Move https://wiki.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/SearchQuery
I have several virtual mailboxes but dovecot knows nothing about them. Postfix is configured to deliver mail for my virtual mailboxes, and my desktop & mobile email clients are configured with "identities" to respond to them.
On Thursday, December 1, 2022 12:25:52 AM AKST, Simon B wrote:
On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 at 12:58, Paul Kudla (SCOM.CA Internet Services Inc.) <paul@scom.ca> wrote:
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) ...
Thanks Paul.
I finally got around to looking at this again, and for my own benefit, and perhaps anyone else in the future, the format that eventually worked was:
doveadm -Dv move -u user@destination.com INBOX user user @source.net MAILBOX INBOX ALL
However...
the -v option does NOT as the man page indicates produce any kind of progress counter.
-v Enables verbosity, including progress counter.
On a medium mailbox (~1000 messages) it took about 3 minutes, with no indication anything was being done until the prompt returned. Maybe I need -D -v and not -Dv?
AND,
it moved all the mails from /var/spool/mail/virtual/source.net/user/cur but none of the emails from /var/spool/mail/virtual/source.net/user/new
And I have not been able to figure how to move those...
Simon
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