dovecot - May 2020 - ot: copy physical mail files ?

dumb question warning:

I have two email accounts, me at tld1 and me at tld2
often, get emails intended (by me) for me at tld2 sent to me at tld1

this is purely for my own preferred record keeping preference,

as I run the server, is it 'a really bad things' if I simply copy
relevant
mail files from
/var/vmail/vmail1/tld1..../cur to /var/vmail/vmail1/tld2.../cur ?

rather than forward emails as I have been doing?

thanks

> On May 6, 2020, at 9:45 PM, Voytek Eymont <voytek at sbt.net.au>
wrote:
> 
> dumb question warning:
> 
> I have two email accounts, me at tld1 and me at tld2
> often, get emails intended (by me) for me at tld2 sent to me at tld1
> 
> this is purely for my own preferred record keeping preference,
> 
> as I run the server, is it 'a really bad things' if I simply copy
relevant
> mail files from
> /var/vmail/vmail1/tld1..../cur to /var/vmail/vmail1/tld2.../cur ?
> 
> rather than forward emails as I have been doing?
> 
If you use the dovecot lmtp to deliver the mail, wouldn?t it be easier to use
sieve to redirect?

> Am 07.05.2020 um 17:15 schrieb Admin dishaw.org <admin at
dishaw.org>:
> 
> 
> 
>> On May 6, 2020, at 9:45 PM, Voytek Eymont <voytek at sbt.net.au>
wrote:
>> 
>> dumb question warning:
>> 
>> I have two email accounts, me at tld1 and me at tld2
>> often, get emails intended (by me) for me at tld2 sent to me at tld1
>> 
>> this is purely for my own preferred record keeping preference,
>> 
>> as I run the server, is it 'a really bad things' if I simply
copy relevant
>> mail files from
>> /var/vmail/vmail1/tld1..../cur to /var/vmail/vmail1/tld2.../cur ?
>> 
>> rather than forward emails as I have been doing?
>> 
> 
> If you use the dovecot lmtp to deliver the mail, wouldn?t it be easier to
use sieve to redirect?
or even drag & drop in your mail client from one account to the other?

Voytek Eymont wrote:
> dumb question warning:
> 
> I have two email accounts, me at tld1 and me at tld2
> often, get emails intended (by me) for me at tld2 sent to me at tld1
> 
> this is purely for my own preferred record keeping preference,
> 
> as I run the server, is it 'a really bad things' if I simply copy
relevant
> mail files from
> /var/vmail/vmail1/tld1..../cur to /var/vmail/vmail1/tld2.../cur ?
> 
> rather than forward emails as I have been doing?
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
I used to move mail files around but now use "doveadm move".

You can probably move mail from me at tld1 to me at tld2 with something like:

doveadm move -u me at tld2 INBOX user me at tld1 MAILBOX INBOX subject party

where party is a string that appears only in the subject line of the 
emails you want to move.

	Richard.