dovecot - Aug 2015 - How to import an mbox to an existing user as a new mailbox

On 2 Aug 2015, at 23:27, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Aug 2015, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>
>> Greetings. I have a bunch of mbox files that I want to import to an 
>> existing user, each into a new mailbox. That is, I want to import the 
>> file project1.mbox to user Foo, into a newly-created mailbox called 
>> "Project 1". Is there a dovecot tool to do this on the
server?
>
> do you have access to the file system of the mail storage? Can you 
> call doveadm on the server? What mail storage do you use now, Maildir, 
> mbox, ... ?
Sorry for being unclear earlier. Yes, yes, mbox.

So, I take it this is a doveadm command. :-) Will this be just
"import",
or a combination of "mailbox" and "import"?

--Paul Hoffman

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On Mon, 3 Aug 2015, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> On 2 Aug 2015, at 23:27, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
>> On Sun, 2 Aug 2015, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>> 
>>> Greetings. I have a bunch of mbox files that I want to import to an
>>> existing user, each into a new mailbox. That is, I want to import
the file
>>> project1.mbox to user Foo, into a newly-created mailbox called
"Project
>>> 1". Is there a dovecot tool to do this on the server?
>> 
>> do you have access to the file system of the mail storage? Can you call
>> doveadm on the server? What mail storage do you use now, Maildir, mbox,
...
>> ?
>
> Sorry for being unclear earlier. Yes, yes, mbox.
copy project1.mbox to '/path/to/user/mail/storage/Project 1.mbox' and 
make sure, the user has file system rights to access the file at all.

Maybe, you need to add the new mailbox to the user's subscription file, in 
order to have it show up.

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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On 3 Aug 2015, at 7:16, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Aug 2015, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>> On 2 Aug 2015, at 23:27, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2 Aug 2015, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>>>
>>>> Greetings. I have a bunch of mbox files that I want to import
to an
>>>> existing user, each into a new mailbox. That is, I want to
import
>>>> the file project1.mbox to user Foo, into a newly-created
mailbox
>>>> called "Project 1". Is there a dovecot tool to do
this on the
>>>> server?
>>>
>>> do you have access to the file system of the mail storage? Can you 
>>> call doveadm on the server? What mail storage do you use now, 
>>> Maildir, mbox, ... ?
>>
>> Sorry for being unclear earlier. Yes, yes, mbox.
>
> copy project1.mbox to '/path/to/user/mail/storage/Project 1.mbox'
and
> make sure, the user has file system rights to access the file at all.
>
> Maybe, you need to add the new mailbox to the user's subscription 
> file, in order to have it show up.
After a week, I'm at this again. Now having read up on doveadm, I am 
trying the following:

   sudo doveadm import -u Foo mbox:/home/phoffman/project1.mbox "Project 
1" all

However, that gets the result:

   Initializing mail storage from mail_location parameter failed: mbox: 
mbox root directory can't be a file

Which bit am I missing here?

--Paul Hoffman