Doveadm Backup (other) issues

[Sami Ketola]

> On 7. Jun 2020, at 18.20, John Stoffel <john at stoffel.org> wrote:
> 
>>>>>> "Gingko" == Gingko  <ldiff001 at gingko.ovh> writes:
> 
> Gingko> I also have issues using Dovecot Backup.
> 
> Gingko> I am trying to Backup (or possibly Sync - one way) a single
> Gingko> user IMAP account from a remote server, unknown type, to my
> Gingko> own server.
> 
> 
> I think this is the key problem here, doveadm only talks to dovecot
> servers, both source and destination.  You might want to try the tool
> 'imapsync' instead.  I'd get it from the github site, or see if it's
> packaged on your client end.

This is incorrect. Doveadm dsync can be used to pull mails from remote imap server that is not dovecot.



>  https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync
> 
> This is a much simpler way to pull down a single IMAP account.  


.. but imapsync does not migrate all data.

Sami