[Dovecot] Integrate mbox into mdbox

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Tue Apr 23 15:37:08 EEST 2013


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On Sat, 20 Apr 2013, lutz.niederer at gmx.net wrote:

> I have several mbox files (unstructured, only the big plain mbox files) 
> and I would like to integrate/read these mbox files into mdbox 
> subfolders of specific users.  This is a production system and I don't 
> want to disturb running services and I am a bit afraid of not using the 
> right command and maybe destroying (or whatever) their mailboxes.  I am 
> sure it is pretty easy.  Can someone please tell me the correct dsync 
> command line that I should use to read each mbox file (one-way) into the 
> specific folder of the mdbox folder structure of a specific user?

what Dovecot version do you have?

doveadm help import

might do what you want.

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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