"doveadm altmove -r" not working ?

[Aki Tuomi]

> On 21/03/2023 00:26 EET Benoit Branciard <benoit.branciard at univ-paris1.fr> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hello,
> 
> I have some trouble using "doveadm altmove -r".
> 
> Regular "doveadm altmove" is OK, selected mails were moved to alternate 
> storage as expected. But I can't manage to get them back to original 
> location, "doveadm altmove -r" has no effect.
> 
> We are using Dovecot 2.3.4 (Debian Buster package).
> 
> mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox:DIRNAME=_@@_dbox-Mails_@@_:ALT=/slow%h/mdbox
> 
> doveadm altmove -u myuser since 90d
> 
> -> some message files are created under /slow/my/homedir/mdbox/storage
> 
> doveadm altmove -r -u myuser all
> 
> -> message files are still sitting under /slow/my/homedir/mdbox/storage, 
> none were created into /my/homedir/mdbox/storage.
> 
> Is there some known issues with doveadm altmove in this version ? Or am 
> I missing something ?
> 
> I can share more config details if needed.
> 
> -- 
> Benoit BRANCIARD
> Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - DSIUN-SIS
> B405 - Centre PMF - 90 rue de Tolbiac - 75013 Paris
> Tel. 01 44 07 89 68
> http://dsiun.univ-paris1.fr

Can you try 

doveadm -D altmove -r -u myuser all

and post logs?

Aki