Alternate Storage altmove not working bug

[Timo Sirainen]

On 15 May 2015, at 02:50, Daniel van Ham Colchete <daniel.colchete at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone!
> 
> I would like to report a bug here. We are using dovecot's sdbox with
> alternate storage here. From time to time my SSD partition gets full and I
> always find users with lots of e-mails stuck there, and altmove just won't
> move them. It moves most of the e-mails correctly, but a few was getting
> stuck everyday.
> 
> So, I think I have found the problem! When a user moves the message from
> one mailbox to another, the move will keep all the flags!
> Including MAIL_INDEX_MAIL_FLAG_BACKEND 0x40. So, altmove think this message
> was already moved and doesn't do anything.

Thanks, fixed: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/9ad3f11617f1

> Just one last question: how can I remove that flag from the message? I have
> taken a look at doveadm-flags(1) but it doesn't seem to allow anything on
> that flag.

You can use doveadm altmove -r parameter to "move" the mail back to the primary storage. This fixes the flag. Then you can move it to alt storage.