Christian Binder Stadt Freilassing
2015-Jan-30 10:28 UTC
Uniqueness of dovecot mailbox-guids
If mailbox guids should be unique systemwide, would it be safe to delete all 'dovecot-uidlist' files of the user's mailboxes and then do a doveadm force-resync after mailbox migration? Thanks! Christian ----------------urspr?ngliche Nachricht----------------- Von: Christian Binder Stadt Freilassing [christian.binder at freilassing.de ] An: "dovecot dovecot.org" [dovecot at dovecot.org ] Datum: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 09:24:12 +0100 -------------------------------------------------> Sorry if this is a duplicate message. I'm new in this mailing list and not sure if > the first message really got posted ... > > Dovecot version: 2.2.9 > > We're using doveadm backup to migrate user mailboxes from cyrus to dovecot. I > defined a master user for the old cyrus mailserver in imapc backend to get access > to all the mailboxes. Now I realized that after migration every user's "Inbox" or > "Trash" on the new dovecot server has the same mailbox-guid, e.g: > > User a: > inbox dd9456... > trash 5549cc... > > User b: > inbox dd9456... > trash 5549cc... > > Is this a wanted behaviour? If i do not migrate with doveadm backup and just > manually create mailboxes, the mailbox-guids are globally unique, e.g: > > User a: > inbox dd9456... > trash 5549cc... > > User b: > inbox c543fe... > trash t49ccc... > > Thanks! > Christian >