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<span style=" font-family:'Courier New'; font-size: 9pt;">I'm, trying to sync/backup mailboxes from a current dovecot instance to a new server.<br>
But the old server has real system accounts.<br>
The new server has virtual users.<br>
And the account/user-name is different.<br>
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Example: Joe Sixpack is<br>
joes (on the old system)<br>
but is<br>
</span><a style=" font-family:'Courier New'; font-size: 9pt;" href="joes@sixpack.org">joes@sixpack.org</a><span style=" font-family:'Courier New'; font-size: 9pt;"> (on the new system.)<br>
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I'm using something like this to attempt the sync<br>
doveadm -o mail_fsync=never backup -R -u joes@sixpack.org imapc:<br>
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This works from the new system, as it recognizes the user with a full </span><a style=" font-family:'Courier New'; font-size: 9pt;" href="@domain.com">@domain.com</a><span style=" font-family:'Courier New'; font-size: 9pt;"> username - but the old system doesn't know who </span><a style=" font-family:'Courier New'; font-size: 9pt;" href="joes@sixpack.org">joes@sixpack.org</a><span style=" font-family:'Courier New'; font-size: 9pt;"> is - and just wants joes.<br>
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I don't see a way to specify the remote account username independently from the local one.<br>
What's the best way to handle this?<br>
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TIA<br>
-Greg<br>
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