dovecot - Dec 2008 - Move mail in Maildir without IMAP

I set-up some spam/ham learning folders where a crontab entry learns
the mail and them moves it do a different Maildir folder.
Unfortunately, since it has a different dovecot-keywords file, any imap
flags get changed to unknown-0, unknown-1 etc. 

I tried the following, but it didn't work 

mv "${src_ham}"/cur/* "$dest_ham"/new/
cp "${src_ham}"/dovecot-keywords "${dest_ham}"

Is there a simple way to do this correctly without going through IMAP?

And are there any more serious consequences of moving mail like this,
with dovecot imap running on top.

On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 01:11 +0000, RW wrote:
> I set-up some spam/ham learning folders where a crontab entry learns
> the mail and them moves it do a different Maildir folder.
> Unfortunately, since it has a different dovecot-keywords file, any imap
> flags get changed to unknown-0, unknown-1 etc. 
> 
> I tried the following, but it didn't work 
> 
> mv "${src_ham}"/cur/* "$dest_ham"/new/
> cp "${src_ham}"/dovecot-keywords "${dest_ham}"
> 
> Is there a simple way to do this correctly without going through IMAP?
No. But you could do something like:

export MAIL=maildir:/home/user/Maildir
printf "1 select src\n2 copy 1:* dest\n3 store 1:* +flags.silent
\\deleted\n4 close\n" | imap
> And are there any more serious consequences of moving mail like this,
> with dovecot imap running on top. 
No.

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On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:52:58 +0200
Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> No. But you could do something like:
> 
> export MAIL=maildir:/home/user/Maildir
> printf "1 select src\n2 copy 1:* dest\n3 store 1:* +flags.silent
> \\deleted\n4 close\n" | imap
That's easier than I thought. Is it possible to do that with virtual
accounts, if I set the appropriate uid and path in MAIL, or do I need
to give dovecot some additional user information?