[Dovecot] moving mail out of alt storage

[Mark Moseley]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Micah Anderson <micah at riseup.net> wrote:
> Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> writes:
>
>> On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 23:17 -0400, Micah Anderson wrote:
>>> I moved some mail into the alt storage:
>>>
>>> doveadm altmove -u johnd at example.com seen savedbefore 1w
>>>
>>> and now I want to move it back to the regular INBOX, but I can't see how
>>> I can do that with either 'altmove' or 'mailbox move'.
>>
>> Is this sdbox or mdbox? With sdbox you could simply "mv" the files. Or
>> apply patch: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/1910c76a6cc9
>
> This is mdbox, which is why I am not sure how to operate because I am
> used to individual files as is with maildir.
>
> micah
>

I'm curious about this too. Is moving the m.# file out of the ALT
path's storage/ directory into the non-ALT storage/ directory
sufficient? Or will that cause odd issues?