doveadm backup : Error: Failed to access mailbox

[Laura Smith]

FYI, found the solution.

It seems doveadm can't cope with brackets in mailbox names.

I moved the user's mails into non-braketed, deleted the bracketed and doveadm backup worked fine after that.

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On Sunday, 24 May 2020 14:32, Laura Smith <n5d9xq3ti233xiyif2vp at protonmail.ch> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> So close and yet so far.  ;-(
> Have been migrating users from an old Dovecot server to a new one.
> All of the users have doveadm backup'd perfectly, except for one !
>
> What does the below mean ?
>
> $ sudo doveadm -v -o imapc_user=jd at example.org.tld -o imapc_password=secretSquirrel -o imapc_host=old-server.example.com backup -1 -R -u jd at example.org.tld imapc:
> dsync(jd at example.org.tld): Info: imapc(old-server.example.com:993): Connected to 10.10.10.10:993 (local 10.10.10.11:35858)
> dsync(jd at example.org.tld): Error: Failed to access mailbox Sent Messages (jasmin at example: Mailbox doesn't exist: Sent Messages (jasmin at example (0.001 + 0.000 secs).
> dsync(jd at example.org.tld): Error: Failed to access mailbox Sent Messages (jasmin at example.org: Mailbox doesn't exist: Sent Messages (jasmin at example.org (0.001 + 0.000 secs).
> dsync(jd at example.org.tld): Error: Failed to access mailbox Drafts (jasmin at example: Mailbox doesn't exist: Drafts (jasmin at example (0.001 + 0.000 secs).
> dsync(jd at example.org.tld): Error: Failed to access mailbox Drafts (jasmin at example.org: Mailbox doesn't exist: Drafts (jasmin at example.org (0.001 + 0.000 secs).
> dsync(jd at example.org.tld): Error: Failed to access mailbox Deleted Messages (jasmin at example: Mailbox doesn't exist: Deleted Messages (jasmin at example (0.001 + 0.000 secs).
> dsync(jd at example.org.tld): Error: Failed to access mailbox Deleted Messages (jasmin at example.org: Mailbox doesn't exist: Deleted Messages (jasmin at example.org (0.001 + 0.000 secs).