[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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