dovecot - Apr 2014 - Move of mail folders to other mail account on same server

Hi,

I'd like to move mail folders from one mail account to another mail 
account on the same server. Moving the folders via my mail client 
(Thunderbird) takes a long time. Therefore I wondered whether it's not 
possible to simply move the files on the server itself.   If I 
unsubscribe to the folders in my source account, then move the folder 
and subscribe to the folders in my target account: will that work?

I run dovecot version 2.1.15

Thanks a lot,

Jan

Jan Valvekens wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to move mail folders from one mail account to another mail
> account on the same server. Moving the folders via my mail client
> (Thunderbird) takes a long time. Therefore I wondered whether it's not
> possible to simply move the files on the server itself. If I unsubscribe
> to the folders in my source account, then move the folder and subscribe
> to the folders in my target account: will that work?
>
AFAIK it should work, at least with Maildir format - if you have enough 
storage space on the server, you can test it by copying the files 
(directories) instead of moving them.

Or you can try using doveadm - doveadm mailbox create to create the 
folders in destination mailbox and then doveadm move to move messages 
from source to destination account (provided your mail accounts share 
the same UID and GID on the server.)

See wiki

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Mailbox
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Move