Can you "doveadm search" with mailbox location instead of a user (-u option)?
Hey dovecot-users!
doveadm import offers to use i.e. a maildir as source and then import into a users mailbox referenced via "-u" option. If one wants to import only certain emails from the source a search-query can be given as well.
I was wondering if doveadm search also does offer to search a mailbox referenced by filesystem path i.e.
doveadm search maildir:/srv/mailboxes/example.com/mailbox123 NEW
Maybe a fixed mailbox location via "-o mailbox_location=maildir:/srv/mailboxes/example.com/mailbox123" does work, but then it's rather a side effect as one needs to define a user via "-u" parameter anyways.
Regards
Christian
On 27 Jan 2016, at 15:53, Christian Rohmann <crohmann@netcologne.de> wrote:
Hey dovecot-users!
doveadm import offers to use i.e. a maildir as source and then import into a users mailbox referenced via "-u" option. If one wants to import only certain emails from the source a search-query can be given as well.
Yes, because import is importing mails from one location to another.
I was wondering if doveadm search also does offer to search a mailbox referenced by filesystem path i.e.
Whereas search uses only one location.
doveadm search maildir:/srv/mailboxes/example.com/mailbox123 NEW
Maybe a fixed mailbox location via "-o mailbox_location=maildir:/srv/mailboxes/example.com/mailbox123" does work, but then it's rather a side effect as one needs to define a user via "-u" parameter anyways.
You can use:
doveadm -o mail=maildir:/srv/mailboxes/example.com/mailbox123 search new
You don't actually have to use the -u parameter, although doveadm may be using the wrong UID/GID/home then.
On 01/29/2016 03:41 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
You can use:
doveadm -o mail=maildir:/srv/mailboxes/example.com/mailbox123 search new
You don't actually have to use the -u parameter, although doveadm may be using the wrong UID/GID/home then.
Awesome. Maybe the usage output
# /opt/dovecot/bin/doveadm search doveadm search [-u <user>|-A] [-S <socket_path>] <search query>
should then not tell the user that "-u" needs to be given or better explain that "-o mail=" is also a valid way to define which mailbox.
Thanks again Timo for one versatile piece of good software!
Christian
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