dovecot - Oct 2010 - merge mdboxes

Hi there,
after migration we have a very big problem...
there are two mailboxes in /var/mail/username/mailboxes/
/var/mail/username/mailboxes/inbox
/var/mail/username/mailboxes/inbox2
i DO have to merge these boxes, but i found no tools for this step. is  
there any way with doveadm oder dsync to move alle messages from mdbox  
inbox2 into mdbox inbox?
i hope you all can tell me a way to do this - its a very very big  
problem at the moment.
By the way - logging in via imap with thunderbird und move them on  
that way is not my favorite solution cause i have to do this for  
hundreds of users...
i hope you can help me! thanks a lot!
Tobias Daucher

On Sat, 2010-10-23 at 16:27 +0200, Tobias Daucher wrote:
> Hi there,
> after migration we have a very big problem...
> there are two mailboxes in /var/mail/username/mailboxes/
> /var/mail/username/mailboxes/inbox
> /var/mail/username/mailboxes/inbox2
So they are in the same mdbox storage, just in different mailboxes?
> By the way - logging in via imap with thunderbird und move them on  
> that way is not my favorite solution cause i have to do this for  
> hundreds of users...
IMAP would still be the simplest solution. You could do something like:

printf "1 select inbox2\n2 copy 1:* INBOX\n3 delete inbox2\n" |
/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap -u username

Am 25.10.2010 15:53, schrieb Timo Sirainen:
> On Sat, 2010-10-23 at 16:27 +0200, Tobias Daucher wrote:
>> Hi there,
>> after migration we have a very big problem...
>> there are two mailboxes in /var/mail/username/mailboxes/
>> /var/mail/username/mailboxes/inbox
>> /var/mail/username/mailboxes/inbox2
>
> So they are in the same mdbox storage, just in different mailboxes?
>
>> By the way - logging in via imap with thunderbird und move them on
>> that way is not my favorite solution cause i have to do this for
>> hundreds of users...
>
> IMAP would still be the simplest solution. You could do something like:
>
> printf "1 select inbox2\n2 copy 1:* INBOX\n3 delete inbox2\n" |
/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap -u username
>
>
All right it works!
dsync is sometimes not soooo stable but the imap server is... so why do a
converting oder something
like that not always via this way?
(echo "1 select .NCarchiv/tsdauche"; echo "2 copy 1:*
INBOX"; echo "3 logout")| su tsdauche -c
"/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap"
and after that you can delte the old box...
(echo "1 select .NCarchiv/tsdauche"; echo "2 delete
.NCarchiv/tsdauche";  echo "3 logout")| su
tsdauche -c "/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap"

so there are no faults and no problems with converting and merging boxes...
thanks for that hint timo!
bye
tobias daucher

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