[Dovecot] problem migrating from maildir to dbox

Ramón Frontera ramon.frontera at uib.es
Mon Sep 12 16:38:00 EEST 2011


While the dovecot is running with the new mail_location to dbox, I try to migrate the maildir content.
This is the reason because INBOX already exists.

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  Ramon Frontera Gallardo
  Centre de Tecnologies de la Informació  
  Universitat de les Illes Balears        
  Ctra. Valldemossa km 7,5
  07122 Palma de Mallorca




El 12/09/2011, a las 14:06, Timo Sirainen escribió:

> On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 13:52 +0200, Ramón Frontera wrote:
>>>> After that we use dsync -u user mirror maildir:~/Maildir.
>>>> The problem is that if INBOX exists the dsync create a new folder with name like b5893c0a93ff694e551200002dfa3112
>>>> Can I migrate to the existing INBOX? or How can I merge the 2 INBOX folders?
> 
> Have you created the dbox directory before running dsync? And opened it
> with some tool? I tried with your config and it worked fine.
> 
> The reason why these duplicate INBOXes happen is when INBOX exists both
> in source and in destination when dsync is run. Typically this means
> that you've created the destination INBOX already by e.g. logging in or
> delivering a mail there or something..
> 
> 




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