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

[Bjørn T Johansen]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:51:34 +0100 (CET)
Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:

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> On Fri, 14 Dec 2012, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
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> > 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?
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> Depending on your storage backend you can pre-create the folders. E.g. if 
> you use Maildir, you create
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> mkdir .Folder.Subfolder.Subfolder/new
> mkdir .Folder.Subfolder.Subfolder/cur
> mkdir .Folder.Subfolder.Subfolder/tmp
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> touch .Folder.Subfolder.Subfolder/maildirfolder
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> For current versions of Dovecot, you can use the doveadm tool:
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> doveadm mailbox create [-A|-u user] [-S socket_path] [-s] mailbox ...
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> Regards,
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> Steffen Kaiser


Thx but I then still need to do it manually.. But I think I will do it manually anyway, so I can do some cleanup at the same time... :)

BTJ

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