<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 7. Jun 2020, at 16.13, Gingko <<a href="mailto:ldiff001@gingko.ovh" class="">ldiff001@gingko.ovh</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none;" class="">Hello,<br class=""><br class="">I also have issues using Dovecot Backup.<br class=""><br class="">I am trying to Backup (or possibly Sync - one way) a single user IMAP account from a remote server, unknown type, to my own server.<br class=""><br class="">For that purpose, I defined the following parameters :<br class=""><br class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">imapc_host = <</font><font face="Courier New" class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""><font face="Courier
New" class="">host name</font></font>><br class="">imapc_user =<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font face="Courier New" class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""><user name><br class=""></font>imapc_password = <password><br class="">imapc_features = rfc822.size</font><br class=""></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">(<font face="Courier New" class=""><user name></font><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has format:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><font face="Courier New" class=""><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:name@example.com">name@example.com</a></font>, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><font face="Courier New" class=""><host name></font><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is the name of the imap remote server that I use for getting mails)</font></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none;" class="">… and then I issued the following command:<br class=""><br class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">doveadm backup -R -u <user name, format<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:name@example.com">name@example.com</a>> imapc:</font><br class=""></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none;" class="">... but doing this, I get the following answer:</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none;" class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">dsync(<user name>): Info: imapc(<host name>:143): Connected to <host IP address>:143 (local 192.168.1.2:52940)<br class="">dsync(<user name>): Error: Failed to initialize user: namespace configuration error: Namespace mail/ can't have alias_for= to a different storage (different root dirs)</font><br class=""><br class="">How can I solve this?</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none;" class="">If there is something not matching between servers, I may eventually change configuration on my side, but I think I would first have to know which feature(s) I have to know from the remote server in order to create the matching one on my server.<br class=""></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none;" class="">Is there a way to list all relevant data coming from the remote server?<br class=""><br class="">Also:</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none;" class="">Doing this, is it necessary that the source user name be the same as the destination user name? Is it possible to backup an IMAP account to a user account having a completely different name?<br class=""></p></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Nope. Source and destination usernames can be different. Please post your doveconf -n as this is probably an error on your local config.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sami</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>