I observe that dsync fills Maildir correctly incl. cur, if I delete Maildir just before dsync runs. Can the failed mbox to Maildir conversion be caused by dovecot creating Maildir automatically if a client connects to dovecot? Should dovecot be shutdown when running dsync? All the best, Torbjörn

9. dsync help? (Torbjorn Astlind)

Message: 9 Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:33:08 +0100 From: Torbjorn Astlind <torbjorn@dbb.su.se> To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] dsync help? Message-ID: <50C600B4.4040603@dbb.su.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

Hi all, I have dovecot serving aprox 200 users through mbox, but the time has come to migrate to a new server, and to use Maildir. Using rsync from the old server I get all user data, i.e /home/*, and inboxes i.e /var/mail/* to a new server. This has worked well for some time as backup. The dsync should convert everything to Maildir, and it does... to an extent. (linebrakes for easy viewing) What I see, is that often, the /home/mail/xxx is NOT resulting in /home/xxx/Maildir/cur All mailboxes from /home/xxx, are properly converted to /home/xxx/Maildir/.name_of_ box Am I misunderstanding something? I get it to work sometimes if I delete the ~/Maildir completely before doing the dsync. All, and any help most welcome, Torbj?rn

for i in cat /home2/torbjorn/SCRIPTS/userlist.txt; do dsync -D -v -f -u $i -c /etc/dovecot/alt_config/10-mail.MBOX.conf backup maildir:~/Maildir; done > /home2/torbjorn/SCRIPTS/mb2mdRES.txt 2>&1

the -c 10.mail.MBOX.conf contains, the parts I think are relevant for the dsync operation: mail_location = mbox:~/home:INBOX=/home/mail/%u namespace { type = private separator = '/' inbox = yes } dsync(root): Debug: Effective uid=501, gid=501, home=/home/torbjorn dsync(root): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=mbox:~/home:INBOX=/home/mail/torbjorn dsync(root): Debug: fs: root=/home/torbjorn/home, index=, control=, inbox=/home/mail/torbjorn, alt= dsync(root): Debug: Effective uid=501, gid=501, home=/home/torbjorn dsync(root): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:~/Maildir dsync(root): Debug: maildir++: root=/home/torbjorn/Maildir, index=, control=, inbox=/home/torbjorn/Maildir, alt= dsync(root): Debug: Namespace : /home/torbjorn/Maildir doesn't exist yet, using default permissions dsync(root): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /home/torbjorn/Maildir: mode=0700 gid=-1 dsync(torbjorn): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /home/torbjorn/home: mode=0700 gid=-1

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