[Dovecot] Copying just the folders to new Dovecot server?

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Fri, 14 Dec 2012, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:

> I am setting up a new Dovecot server and I want to start from scratch, i.e. with an empty mailbox. But I want to have the same folders in my new mailbox that I have in my old. Is
> there a way to create these folders without manually creating one by one?

Depending on your storage backend you can pre-create the folders. E.g. if 
you use Maildir, you create

mkdir .Folder.Subfolder.Subfolder/new
mkdir .Folder.Subfolder.Subfolder/cur
mkdir .Folder.Subfolder.Subfolder/tmp

touch .Folder.Subfolder.Subfolder/maildirfolder

For current versions of Dovecot, you can use the doveadm tool:

doveadm mailbox create [-A|-u user] [-S socket_path] [-s] mailbox ...

Regards,

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Steffen Kaiser
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