cannot see my mails

Jean-Max Reymond jmreymond at ckr-solutions.com
Mon Apr 26 14:55:46 EEST 2021


Le 26/04/2021 à 13:45, Aki Tuomi a écrit :
> 
>> On 26/04/2021 14:38 Jean-Max Reymond <jmreymond at ckr-solutions.com> wrote:
>>
>>   
>> Le 26/04/2021 à 13:31, Aki Tuomi a écrit :
>>>
>>>> On 26/04/2021 14:28 Jean-Max Reymond <jmreymond at ckr-solutions.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>    
>>>> Le 26/04/2021 à 13:24, Yassine Chaouche a écrit :
>>>>> Le 4/26/21 à 10:22 AM, Jean-Max Reymond a écrit :
>>>>>    > After a change of server
>>>>>
>>>>> When you changed servers, did you copy the contents of (probably)
>>>>> /var/vmail/ from the old server to the new server ? this is usually
>>>>> where e-mails are stored.
>>>>>
>>>>> You can also use imap-sync from old to new server. This should
>>>>> automatically transfer your old mail there (if old server is still
>>>>> operationnal)
>>>>
>>>> yep, the 144 GB of mails are copied. The correct owner is mail:mail.
>>>> Database posfixadmin is copied and authentification by sql works
>>>> fine.dovecot does not report any issues, postfix works like a charm. I
>>>> have deleted for only one mailbox, the dovecot files but  no changes.
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Jean-Max Reymond
>>>> CKR Solutions Open Source https://www.ckr-solutions.com
>>>
>>> Does output of `doveadm user your-user-name` match with where you copied all your mails to?
>>>
>>> Aki
>>>
>>
>> # doveadm user  jmreymond at normaal.fr
>> field	value
>> uid	8
>> gid	8
>> home	/home/Mails/jmreymond at normaal.fr/
>> mail	maildir:~/Maildir
>> maildir	jmreymond at normaal.fr/
>>
>>    # ls -ld /home/Mails/jmreymond at normaal.fr/*
>> drwx------ 2 mail mail 4096 Mar 26 07:12
>> /home/Mails/jmreymond at normaal.fr/cur
>> drwx------ 3 mail mail 4096 Nov  8  2014
>> /home/Mails/jmreymond at normaal.fr/mail
>> drwx------ 8 mail mail 4096 Apr 26 13:24
>> /home/Mails/jmreymond at normaal.fr/Maildir
>> drwx------ 2 mail mail 4096 Apr 26 11:12
>> /home/Mails/jmreymond at normaal.fr/new
>> -rw------- 1 mail mail   18 Jun 10  2019
>> /home/Mails/jmreymond at normaal.fr/subscriptions
>> drwx------ 2 mail mail 4096 Apr 26 11:12
>> /home/Mails/jmreymond at normaal.fr/tmp
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Jean-Max Reymond
>> CKR Solutions Open Source https://www.ckr-solutions.com
> 
> home	/home/Mails/jmreymond at normaal.fr/
> mail	maildir:~/Maildir
> 
> this is what matters, so dovecot expects to see your maildir structure under
> 
> /home/Mails/jmreymond at normaal.fr/Maildir/
> 
> Aki
> 

YES, it works :-)
thanks a lot, Aki and Yassine.

-- 
Jean-Max Reymond
CKR Solutions Open Source https://www.ckr-solutions.com


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