noob maildir question

[mikfum]

Hi John
I've been using courier-imap for several years in a relatively small reality with about twenty users, in view of a migration from real box to a virtual server I'm exploring dovecot as a possible alternative.
I am used to stopping the service at night simply to make backups and archiving with a consistent situation in the filesystem, not the best solution but my skills are not so strong :)


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Il lunedì 24 gennaio 2022 2:42 PM, John Stoffel <john at stoffel.org> ha scritto:

> mikfum> thanks John for the reply
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> No problem! I'm not an expert by any stretch, but I've been using
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> dovecot for years and doing It for way too many years... LOL!
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> mikfum> what I would like to do is implement an autoarchive function
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> mikfum> at server level that, in the night while dovecot is down,
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> mikfum> moves messages older than n days from the user inbox to a
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> mikfum> subfolder of the same user (cur to cur)
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> Why do you bring dovecot down? What maintenance are you running them?
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> I'm curious because I never reboot my dovecot instance unless there's
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> a problem. And these days, if you are running a business providing
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> email service, it seems better to run a cluster of dovecot servers
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> behind dovecot director to load balance things.
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> I also feel that using the doveadm commands to do this work is the
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> better way, since it will properly handle locking and consistency of
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> the folder(s).
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> Why do you think that doing this with dovecot is down is the best way
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> to do this?
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> John