[Dovecot] Crash test :)

[Kamil Jońca]

Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> writes:

> On 21.5.2011, at 1.21, Kamil Jońca wrote:
>
>>>>> 2. when I move dbox-Mails to proper place I got:
>>>>> 
>>>>> doveadm(kjonca): Error: sdbox /home/kjonca/Mail/dbox-temp/spamcop/reports/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails: Invalid dbox header size
>>>> 
>>>> What Dovecot version? I think this is fixed already.
>>> 
>>> Um. :(  Files were created about 2 months ago. It was certainly 1.x, but
>>> now it is hard to say, what exactly version it was.
>> 
>> But question is open: Can I (and how) restore mails from so old backup?
>
> Dovecot v2.0 should be able to read v1.x's dbox files. If it can, it can restore the backups. The only difference I can think of is that in some version I changed the default to have dbox save everything under "mailboxes/" directory. If your backups don't use that directory, you can use something like:
>
> doveadm import sdbox:~/Mail/dbox-temp:MAILBOXDIR= "#Dbox" mailbox spamcop/reports


Unfortunately neither debian 2.0.12 nor 2.0.13 version can import
these. Strange thing is that message "Invalid dbox header size" is
printed after  creating "dovecot-uidvalidity" and dovecot-index* files
for source dbox, u.* files are  not read at all.

KJ


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