dovecot - Nov 2018 - moving only new mails from one server to another

Hello,

I think it is not really the right place to post about that, but lot of 
dovecot experts there ;)

Basically, I have a server with dovecot 2.2.9 that has new (unread) 
mails? (because of a bad DNS config at a migration time).

Is there an easy way to move only these unread mails to a another server 
? (no perms trouble here : all vmail:vmail)

Though to iterate through all /var/vmail/*/*/Maildir/new and scp/rsync them.

Would that work ?

Thanks in advance for your time.

Nicolas

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Hi,

On 12/11/18 9:29 pm, Nicolas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I think it is not really the right place to post about that, but
> lot of dovecot experts there ;)
> 
> Basically, I have a server with dovecot 2.2.9 that has new
> (unread) mails  (because of a bad DNS config at a migration time).
> 
> Is there an easy way to move only these unread mails to a another
> server ? (no perms trouble here : all vmail:vmail)
> 
> Though to iterate through all /var/vmail/*/*/Maildir/new and
> scp/rsync them.
> 
> Would that work ?
TMPFILE=$(mktemp)
cd /
tar cf "${TMPFILE}" \
	./var/vmail/*/Maildir/new/1* \
	./var/vmail/*/Maildir/.*/new/1*
scp -p "${TMPFILE}" remoteserver:/tmp/

Login to remote server:

cd /
tar xf /tmp/NAME_OF_TAR_FILE


Cheers
A.
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