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<span style=" font-family:'Courier New'; font-size: 9pt;">Following up on my own post - partial potential solution, and additional questions.<br>
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So, it *looks* like using something like "auth_username_format = %Ln" on the old server dovecot config will fix the problem I outlined below. (I still need to try it, and since it's a production server, I need to be careful when/how I do that.)<br>
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But this doesn't solve a similar issue I can certainly see happening.<br>
Lets say, on the new server and old server, I'm actually syncing different accounts.<br>
Say on the old server it's joes<br>
But on the new server, it's sallys<br>
(Joe decided they'd rather be called Sally.)<br>
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So, I'm trying to sync the joes mailbox on the old system with the sallys mailbox on the new one.<br>
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Is there a way that handles that?<br>
And if so, it would also allow me to solve this with the problem outlined in the prior post by supplying the source and destination mailboxes individually / separately.<br>
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Thanks again!<br>
-Greg<br>
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<td ><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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