Doveadm Move Query

[justina colmena ~biz]

Sounds like a boss at work. An "admin" doing off-beat SQL-like stuff on 
people's email. I'm a little disconcerted. I don't really use these 
commands myself or see a good use case for them, or the whole 
infrastructure built up on "doveadm" commands.

These are general purpose mailbox utilities. Something that would be much 
less confusing to fork off into a totally separate project independent of 
Dovecot. There is sifting and sorting for spam and porn and scams, but that 
isn't really a "dove(cot) admin" job.

https://wiki.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm
https://wiki.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Move
https://wiki.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/SearchQuery

I have several virtual mailboxes but dovecot knows nothing about them. 
Postfix is configured to deliver mail for my virtual mailboxes, and my 
desktop & mobile email clients are configured with "identities" to respond 
to them.


On Thursday, December 1, 2022 12:25:52 AM AKST, Simon B wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 at 12:58, Paul Kudla (SCOM.CA Internet Services
> Inc.) <paul at scom.ca> wrote:
>> ok user at domain.com needs to exist before any operations can be done on it.
>> 
>> I discovered that dovecot does not consider a virtual mailbox active
>> until it is returned in the user database
>> 
>> see : doveadm user '*'
>> 
>> both accounts MUST be returned in the list (user at .net & user at .com) ...
>
> Thanks Paul.
>
> I finally got around to looking at this again, and for my own benefit,
> and perhaps anyone else in the future, the format that eventually
> worked was:
>
> doveadm -Dv move -u user at destination.com INBOX  user user @source.net
> MAILBOX INBOX ALL
>
> However...
>
> the -v option does NOT as the man page indicates produce any kind of
> progress counter.
>
>  -v     Enables verbosity, including progress counter.
>
> On a medium mailbox (~1000 messages) it took about 3 minutes, with no
> indication anything was being done until the prompt returned.  Maybe I
> need -D -v and not -Dv?
>
> AND,
>
> it moved all the mails from
> /var/spool/mail/virtual/source.net/user/cur but none of the emails
> from  /var/spool/mail/virtual/source.net/user/new
>
> And I have not been able to figure how to move those...
>
> Simon
>
>