similar to: migrate Maildir to mdbox

mbox is not recommended for new setups unless you have very good reason to do so. Use maildir or sdbox. Aki > On May 2, 2017 at 5:09 PM Michael Segel <dovecot_mjs at hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Silly question? > Which is preferred? MailDir or Mbox? (directory vs flat file) > > How would you do this when migrating from an old server to a new one? > > Thx

Silly question? Which is preferred? MailDir or Mbox? (directory vs flat file) How would you do this when migrating from an old server to a new one? Thx -Mike > On May 2, 2017, at 1:58 AM, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi> wrote: > > Assuming your maildir path is /path/to/mail/Maildir You could do it like this: > > mail_home=/path/to/mail >

I see you haven?t received an answer. Sorry people here don?t seem to have time or inclination to answer basic questions. I?ve tried. You?re better to search elsewhere. Ethon > On Oct 11, 2017, at 12:17 PM, Michael Segel <dovecot_mjs at hotmail.com <mailto:dovecot_mjs at hotmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi, > > I?ve downloaded and built dovecot from the source. >

> On June 1, 2017 at 4:05 AM Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I've tried using IMAP with mail_location pointed at the snapshot, but, > > though I can get a listing of emails in the mailbox, the fetch fails when > > dovecot can't write-lock dovecot.index.log. > > I've thought about doing this someday (adding snapshots to

Here is a simple template you can use as quick start example, and what you can expand later on, feel free to adapt your needs mail_home=/home/vmail/%Lu mail_location=sdbox:~/Mail mail_uid = vmail mail_gid = vmail passdb { driver = static args = password=pass } ssl=yes ssl_cert=<cert.pem ssl_key=<key.pem namespace { inbox = yes separator = / } ps. Ethon, this is a community

I DID offer my help privately. And I have attempted on NUMEROUS occasions to contract somebody to help with ZERO response. So, you?ll excuse me if I have an attitude. Ethon > On Oct 15, 2017, at 11:27 PM, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi> wrote: > > Here is a simple template you can use as quick start example, and what you can expand later on, feel free to adapt your needs

> I've tried using IMAP with mail_location pointed at the snapshot, but, > though I can get a listing of emails in the mailbox, the fetch fails when > dovecot can't write-lock dovecot.index.log. I've thought about doing this someday (adding snapshots to a user's namespace) but never got around to doing it. Snapshots get rotated (e.g. hourly.1 -> hourly.2 -> etc.)

Hi, I replaced HDDs in my home server and reinstalled the OS (Ubuntu 17.04). Since I had some time I reviewed my Dovecot configuration and changed a couple of things, including mailbox format. Now I would like to migrate e-mail (about 20G -- I use this server as an e-mail archive). The Maildir is available on the (old) hard disk. The new dovecot is running. What should I use? Would mbsync work?

Looking at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat, I do not see much on how to do a migration from Maildir to mdbox. That page isn't quite updated it looks. I have several domains (virtual) with the following storage layout: /var/spool/virtual/$domain. So the users have their mail stored as follows: /var/spool/virtual/domain1/$user/Maildir /var/spool/virtual/domain2/$user/Maildir

Assuming your maildir path is /path/to/mail/Maildir You could do it like this: mail_home=/path/to/mail mail_location=mdbox:~/Mail Then run doveadm import -A -s maildir:~/Maildir "" ALL mdbox should end up in /path/to/mail/Mail Please try it with doveadm import -u username first and keep backups, naturally. Aki On 2017-05-02 09:51, Tamas Papp wrote: > Hi, > > I replaced

Hello list, im am trying to migrate customer mails via dsync from an old dovecot 1.1 setup to an new installed dovecot 2.2.25 setup with mdbox. Upgrading the old dovecot 1.1 to 2.2 with Maildir isnt an problem and the replication to the new setup works well too. The only problem now is, that the POP3 UIDL are completely wrong on the target setup. Im using for Maildir pop3_uidl_format = %f With

Nikolai Lusan <nikolai at lusan.id.au> writes: >> Just went through this one recently using CentOS with SendMail, Procmail >> and IMAP conversion from mbox to Maildir - I needed to make sure I could >> run both formats while I migrated users one-by-one. > > When I have migrated solutions from mbox to maildir (I have done more than > one) I found it easier to get a

On Thu, 9 Aug 2018, neutron wrote: > The plugin adds individually encrypted mail storage to the Dovecot IMAP > server. It encrypts all (incoming and outgoing) mail on the mail server > with a key, which can only be accessed with the users password. So the > server operator is not able to see any mail content, if it's saved on > the hard disk. Another privacy plugin that

On Sat, 11 Aug 2018, Aki Tuomi wrote: > While this is true, it can be useful to encrypt messages in-rest at 3rd > party storage. Sure, in this case, mail operator != storage operator. It's not apparent those who clamour for it know the difference. > For end user, only PGP or similar provides sufficient security against admin. For content. Metadata can also reveal a lot. If the

Hello, I have issue with dovecot 2.2.13 I want to change all Maildirs to mdbox format and I do it per partes, so I change mail_location for user (in sql), than I use doveadm sync -u user path_to_maildir and everything works mostly fine. But now I found that when I migrate quite huge Maildir (about 24G of mails) to mdbox, after sync the final mdbox is twice as big as source Maildir (48GB). I

On 19.6.2019 6.39, @lbutlr via dovecot wrote: > On 18 Jun 2019, at 20:46, Adam Raszkiewicz <araszkiewicz at medallies.com> wrote: >> maildir -> mdbox it is maildir to mdbox conversion when I'm looking something opposite: mdbox -> maildir > Please go back and read all the words in my previous reply. > doveadm supports convering mdbox to maildir as well, it works

I saw that before but there is only maildir -> mdbox but not mdbox -> maildir Did I have missed anything there? ?On 6/18/19, 9:59 PM, "dovecot on behalf of @lbutlr via dovecot" <dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org on behalf of dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote: > On 18 Jun 2019, at 15:18, Benny Pedersen via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote: >

Hello, I'm playing around with Dovecot 2.0 beta 4. If I use dsync to convert a users mail stored in Maildir format to mdbox format, the subscriptions file in the new mdbox is created using the wrong mailbox separator ('.') leading to folders within folders not being readable by clients using the subscription feature. Excerpt from IMAP: . LIST "" "*" * LIST

I?m considering moving from maildir to mdbox, but don?t quite see how I should do the conversion with minimal downtime. Our userdb is ldap, and the we use this setting to point to the users maildirectory: user_attrs = mailMessageStore=mail=maildir:%$:INDEX=/indexes/%1u/%1.1u/%u,mailQuota=quota_rule=*:storage=%$ i.e. every user has a "mailMessageStore" attribute in LDAP that points to

I saw that before but there is only maildir -> mdbox but not mdbox -> maildir Did I have missed anything there? From: dovecot <dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org> on behalf of Sami Ketola via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> Reply-To: Sami Ketola <sami.ketola at dovecot.fi> Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 9:58 PM To: Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot at dovecot.org> Cc: