dovecot - Dec 2014 - devoid mailbox status for mail reloaded from a tape backup

dovecot --version
2.2.10

I've only be able to status a mailbox for currently existing users, is it
possible to status a mailbox reloaded from tape to an alternate location?  The
user may or may not exist at this time, but I still need to inspect the mailbox
... thank you,

Steve

> On Dec 8, 2014, at 5:25 PM, Stephen Lidie <sol0 at lehigh.edu> wrote:
> 
> dovecot --version
> 2.2.10
> 
> I've only be able to status a mailbox for currently existing users, is
it possible to status a mailbox reloaded from tape to an alternate location? 
The user may or may not exist at this time, but I still need to inspect the
mailbox ... thank you,
> 
> Steve
1) subject should read "doveadm mailbox status"

2) to clarify, something like an alternate source, as with "doveadm
import".

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On Mon, 8 Dec 2014, Stephen Lidie wrote:
> I've only be able to status a mailbox for currently existing users, is 
> it possible to status a mailbox reloaded from tape to an alternate 
> location?  The user may or may not exist at this time, but I still need 
> to inspect the mailbox ... thank you,
yes

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Steffen Kaiser
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> On Dec 9, 2014, at 2:34 AM, Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at
smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
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> On Mon, 8 Dec 2014, Stephen Lidie wrote:
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>> I've only be able to status a mailbox for currently existing users,
is it possible to status a mailbox reloaded from tape to an alternate location? 
The user may or may not exist at this time, but I still need to inspect the
mailbox ... thank you,
> 
> yes
> 
:)

Well, although I am able to issue a mailbox status command regardless, the
implication was that the command displayed an empty string (nothing useful), and
thus a working example using files not in the locations specified by
mail_location would be useful. In my configuration mail_locations is defined as:

	mail_location = mdbox:~/mail:INDEX=/var/dovecot/index/%u

So a command of the form ?doveadm mailbox status -u userName all INBOX? uses
mail_location as defined in dovecot.conf to locate the mail and index files, and
displays appropriate information about the specified user?s INBOX.

If I have mail and index files in an alternate location - restored from a backup
tape for example - how do I obtain data such as unseen, message count, vsize,
etc about mailboxes residing at that alternate location, a location not pointed
to by mail_location?  As I mentioned, ?doveadm import? allows one to provide an
alternate source location, but ?doveadm mailbox status? does not AFAIK, thus, a
sample command would be wonderful.

thx/stv