Doveadm Backup (other) issues

[John Stoffel]

>>>>> "Sami" == Sami Ketola <Sami.Ketola at Open-Xchange.com> writes:

>> 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.

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

Thanks for teaching more something new!  

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

Sami> .. but imapsync does not migrate all data.

In what way?  I've found that using imapsync worked well to get data
out of Lotus Notes and into a regular Unix mbox file format when I've
used it in the past.  Admittedly not pushing into a local dovecot
instance.

John