Disable SIS

[Nick Rosier]

On 15 Mar 2018, 09:43 +0100, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi>, wrote:

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> 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> 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.

That’s what I was afraid of. That means I need to convert all mailboxes all at once. I had hoped I could disable SIS and migrate 1 mailbox at a time.

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