dovecot - Oct 2020 - Version controlled (git) Maildir generated by Dovecot

Thank you Vitalii.

Could you please tell me / do you know if those dovecot* files have to be also
backed / archived?

Kind regards,

Adam
> ---------- P?vodn? e-mail ----------
> Od: Vitalii <vnagara at yandex.com>
> Komu: Adam <adam.ranek at seznam.cz>
> Datum: 7. 10. 2020 12:04:11
> P?edm?t: Re: Version controlled (git) Maildir generated by Dovecot
> My 5 cents:
> Git is REVISION control, It make sense to use it if files are modified.
> Email is static files so it's better to use any backup system with
> archiving capabilities (gzip or similar). It provide ability to copy
> partially or just some old years to another HDD that is not possible
> with git.
> Also you can archive by dsync to that new server with account on mdbox
> account with gzip compression. That will save space and gives you full
> access to all email.
> 
> P.S. there are many options to choose. I use borg to backup
> everything, including email and mdbox format with separate folder for
> attachments that deduplicate attachments on backups and in filesystem.

Am 07.10.20 um 13:20 schrieb Adam:
> Thank you Vitalii.
> 
> Could you please tell me / do you know if those dovecot* files have to be
also backed / archived?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Adam
> 
>> ---------- P?vodn? e-mail ----------
>> Od: Vitalii <vnagara at yandex.com>
>> Komu: Adam <adam.ranek at seznam.cz>
>> Datum: 7. 10. 2020 12:04:11
>> P?edm?t: Re: Version controlled (git) Maildir generated by Dovecot
>> My 5 cents:
>> Git is REVISION control, It make sense to use it if files are modified.
>> Email is static files so it's better to use any backup system with
>> archiving capabilities (gzip or similar). It provide ability to copy
>> partially or just some old years to another HDD that is not possible
>> with git.
>> Also you can archive by dsync to that new server with account on mdbox
>> account with gzip compression. That will save space and gives you full
>> access to all email.
>>
>> P.S. there are many options to choose. I use borg to backup
>> everything, including email and mdbox format with separate folder for
>> attachments that deduplicate attachments on backups and in filesystem.
> 
> 
> 
> 
Hi, with maildir you can just use rsync
for pure backup

for archive i.e

something like

https://blog.sys4.de/mailarchiv-mit-dovecot-und-postfix-sortiert-nach-datum-mailadressen-und-ein-ausgehend-unterordnern-de.html

but there are many ways to goal this

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> Could you please tell me / do you know if those dovecot* files have to be
also backed / archived?
IIRC the plain files from cur/ and new/ should suffice.

You can try it: create a new IMAP folder, then close your mail app.
Copy some mail files from another cur/ to this imap folder's cur/ directory.
Reopen your mail app and see if new mails are fetched.

Best regards
Gerald

Or on a testing system I can just stop Dovecot, remove everything that
doesn't start with a number and restart Dovecot and connect Thunderbird and
see the results. Thank you.
> ---------- P?vodn? e-mail ----------
> Od: Gerald Galster <list+dovecot at gcore.biz>
> Komu: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Datum: 7. 10. 2020 14:36:43
> P?edm?t: Re: Version controlled (git) Maildir generated by Dovecot
> 
> > Could you please tell me / do you know if those dovecot* files have to
be also backed / archived?
> 
> IIRC the plain files from cur/ and new/ should suffice.
> 
> You can try it: create a new IMAP folder, then close your mail app.
> Copy some mail files from another cur/ to this imap folder's cur/
directory.
> Reopen your mail app and see if new mails are fetched.
> 
> Best regards
> Gerald