Disable SIS

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi
Thu Mar 15 10:41:05 EET 2018



On 15.03.2018 10:40, Nick Rosier wrote:
> On 14 Mar 2018, 20:42 +0100, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi>, wrote:
>
>>
>>> On 14 March 2018 at 21:17 Nick Rosier < nick+dovecot at bunbun.be
>>> <mailto:nick+dovecot at bunbun.be>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm currently running a small home-server with Dovecot. A long time ago
>>> I configured it with SIS enabled. I would like to stop using SIS.
>>>
>>> If I remove sis from mail_attachment_fs will the old mails that are
>>> stored in SIS-storage still be accessible?
>>> How can I convert all mailboxes to stop using SIS and store attachments
>>> back in the mails?
>>>
>>> Rgds,
>>> N.
>>
>> doveadm backup -u username maildir:/tmp/Maildir
>>
>> and then you can convert it back to sdbox after disabling sis by
>> clearing the existing dbox files and running
>>
>> doveadm -omail_location=maildir:/tmp/Maildir backup -u username
>> sdbox:~/something
>>
>> remember to take backups 
>
>
> Thanks for the quick response. I’ve tried a backup on 1 mailbox and
> indeed it stores the mails with attachments. I had tried it as an
> sdbox backup with the option to disable SIS but that didn’t seem to work.
>
> Does anybody know if disabling SIS in the current setup will stop
> saving attachments to SIS but keep reading those that are already
> stored there?
>
> N.
It will prevent you from reading the mails completely.

Aki
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