the Account on the iPhone is IMAP, I'm not sure I understand the process you are describing

On Mon, 2018-11-12 at 23:43 +0100, Benny Pedersen wrote:

Giovanni Bisanti TEST 2 skrev den 2018-11-12 20:19: I lost the whole maildir from my server fro 3 users. They all haveiPhones with all the messages safely stored on the Apple Mail app ontheir phone. There is no way to export them/move them. pop3 ? Is there a way to get Dovecot to just download all the messages andfolder structure from the client and restore it on the server? yes, if clients did pop3 setup to the server it works as designed, only fail is then clients wanted imap :=) ask clients to make another imap setup, while keeping the pop3 setup, if both uses the same sasl login on dovecot, then in iphone its a matter of move mails withing folders Your help is very very much appreciated. i disabled pop3 on dovecot, no more problems with my own clients, not even from iphone users

On 13 Nov 2018, at 9:48 am, Giovanni Bisanti mailto:g@ttyllc.net> wrote:

the Account on the iPhone is IMAP, I'm not sure I understand the process you are describing

iMazing might be able to help you get the mail off the iPhone:

https://imazing.com https://imazing.com/

Then transfer to you Dovecot Maildir. (Have never done this - it’s just a suggestion).

James.