• LuKreme kremels@kreme.com 2013.08.16 20:15:

MDM is only invoked if the target folder doesn't exist. For example, for this list the current target folder is .zz.dovecot.2013. Next year, it will change to .zz.dovecot.2014

(the .zz is because iOS mail does't support unsubscribing from mailboxes and doesn't let you collapse folders, so the zz puts these archive folders way at the end.)

Here's a script I wrote to archive old mail using doveadm. It should be simple enough to tweak it to your needs. Basically you call it with a mailbox name and it will archive all mails before a certain date. Source and Destination Path are in the script code:

dovearchive.sh: #!/bin/bash # Archive old posts before certain date to 'Public/Archive/Mailbox/Year' # Set basic parameters accordingly: # archive=2011, before_date=$year-mm-dd # source_mailbox_base=Public/Newsletters # dest_mailbox_base=Public/Archive/Newsletters # Actual Mailbox is read from command line set -e archive=2012 let year=$archive+1 before_date=$year-01-01 mailbox_owner=tlx@leuxner.net source_mailbox_base='Public/Newsletters' dest_mailbox_base='Public/Archive/Newsletters' #acl_admin_group=owner acl_admin_group='group=PublicMailboxAdmins' acl_unlock_seq="$acl_admin_group delete expunge insert lookup post read write write-seen write-deleted" acl_lock_seq="$acl_admin_group insert lookup post read write write-seen" acl_lock_archive="$acl_admin_group insert lookup read write write-seen"

msg_formatted() { echo "$(date "+%b %d %H:%M:%S") $*" }

if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then echo "usage: $0 mailbox" >&2 exit 1 fi

# Mailbox exists? doveadm acl get -u $mailbox_owner "$source_mailbox_base/$1" || { echo 'Mailbox not found.'; exit 1; }

# Create New Archive Mailbox doveadm mailbox create -u $mailbox_owner "$dest_mailbox_base/$1/$archive"

# Modify ACL, expunge mail and revert ACL msg_formatted "[>] Archiving \"$dest_mailbox_base/$1/$archive\""

doveadm acl set -u $mailbox_owner "$source_mailbox_base/$1" $acl_unlock_seq doveadm move -u $mailbox_owner "$dest_mailbox_base/$1/$archive" mailbox "$source_mailbox_base/$1" before $before_date doveadm acl set -u $mailbox_owner "$source_mailbox_base/$1" $acl_lock_seq doveadm acl set -u $mailbox_owner "$dest_mailbox_base/$1/$archive" $acl_lock_archive

msg_formatted '[ Complete ]'

On 16 Aug 2013, at 17:44 , David Benfell benfell@parts-unknown.org wrote:

mkdir ${path}/${name}/tmp mkdir ${path}/${name}/cur mkdir ${path}/${name}/new

Where ${path} is the path to the parent folder and ${name} is the name of the Maildir.

That's really all there is to it.

$ cat ~/bin/maildirmake #!/bin/bash

mkdir -p $1/{new,cur,tmp}

$ ~/maildirmake .test && ls -lsR .test total 24 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 kremels kremels 512 Aug 18 18:23 cur 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 kremels kremels 512 Aug 18 18:23 new 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 kremels kremels 512 Aug 18 18:23 tmp

.test/cur: total 0

.test/new: total 0

.test/tmp: total 0

Yep. seems to work fine. I think courier had a special command because it creates some extra files and a directory inside the maildir for its indexing.

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On 16 Aug 2013, at 05:04 , Duane Hill duihi77@gmail.com wrote:

On Friday, August 16, 2013 at 6:39:23 AM UTC, lists@sterenborg.info confabulated:

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On 08/16/2013 06:53 AM, LuKreme wrote:

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Since I am using dovecot I do not have courier installed, but Courier had a very handy tool for making maildir folders called maildirmake which I used in some automated backup scripts. How do I duplicate maildirmake in dovecot?

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Dovecot can autocreate mailboxes. Is that something you can use?

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http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxSettings

I don't think so.

Keeping in mind, the mailboxes are created on disk upon first access (i.e. message is transferred to the mailbox via sieve or the mailbox is accessed via IMAP).

And that's why. I might be able to use sieve sometime in the future once I figure out what it can do, but right now I have a script that works and simply want to modify it for dovecot.

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