similar to: Converting user mailboxes from maildir to sdbox

On 20.03.2017 12:58, Steffen Kaiser wrote: > On Thu, 16 Mar 2017, Dirk Laurenz wrote: > > > What's anying is, that only on iOS ( ) i see a huge bunch of > .CONTROL directories - marked grey. > > > It seems to be a copy of the existing folder structure. I don't see > this on > > (Y) > > > Is there any chance to configure dovecot to hide those

The easiest way if you have only very few users is to just copy the files into correct place. Aki On 11.04.2017 12:04, Dirk Laurenz wrote: > Thanks, so how can i migrate this? > > -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: dovecot [mailto:dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org] Im Auftrag von Aki Tuomi > Gesendet: Montag, 20. M?rz 2017 12:07 > An: dovecot at dovecot.org > Betreff: Re:

Hello We are now running dovecot 2.0.9 with indexes in a ram disk and maildir storage in a test system. We have the following questions: - If there is a power outage / kernel crash, we will lose the content of ramdisk. We have tested that indexes are regenerated when a user logs in via imap, so e-mail access will be "slower" after a power outage / kernel crash, but

Yeah, I think dovecot was a custom compiled build Version is 2.2.18 Config: # 2.2.18: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.8 # OS: Linux 2.6.32-754.14.2.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.10 (Final) xfs auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = plain login dict { acl = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext } disable_plaintext_auth = no lda_mailbox_autosubscribe =

Yes, this settings work as i expected, but i didn't found documentation for mail_home= Thanks On 15.05.2018 20:10, Aki Tuomi wrote: > > Well, that's not what I asked you to try... > > try > > mail_home=/var/spool/mail/%u > mail_location=mdbox:~/ > > Aki > >> On 15 May 2018 at 20:03 telsch <telsch at gmx.de> wrote: >> >> >>

I?m trying to migrate mdbox to maildir based on https://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat * Modified dovecot.conf and set mail_location=maildir:/tmp/destination/mailboxes/ * Then I had run /mnt/testmail/bin/dsync -Dv -u user at domain.com<mailto:user at domain.com> mirror mdbox:/source/mailboxes/user at domain.com<mailto:/source/mailboxes/user at domain.com> but that

I'm sending this message to both dovecot and ceph-users ML so please don't mind if something seems too obvious for you. Hi, I have a question for both dovecot and ceph lists and below I'll explain what's going on. Regarding dbox format (https://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox), when using sdbox, a new file is stored for each email message. When using mdbox, multiple

Thanks Jack. That's good to know. It is definitely something to consider. In a distributed storage scenario we might build a dedicated pool for that and tune the pool as more capacity or performance is needed. Regards, Webert Lima DevOps Engineer at MAV Tecnologia *Belo Horizonte - Brasil* *IRC NICK - WebertRLZ* On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 4:45 PM Jack <ceph at jack.fr.eu.org> wrote:

Hello, I've got a Dovecot 2.3.x setup. Currently it's running Maildir storage. I'd like to convert that to Dbox specifically Sdbox safely. I'm also looking to at the same time or shortly thereafter encrypt the email storage with mail_crypt. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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 >

With this settings I don't get the expectet result, still get wrong permissions on new mailboxes. Aki did you also try with %u ? > In /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf follow options are set: > mail_gid = mail > mail_privileged_group = mail > mail_access_groups = mail > mail_location = mdbox:/var/spool/mail/%u On 15.05.2018 13:06, Aki Tuomi

Hello, Thanks. Are there any performance or stability advantages Sdbox over Maildir? I'm also thinking ease of encryption an Sdbox or Mdbox vs Maildir? Thanks. Dave. On 5/28/19, Ralph Seichter via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote: > * David Mehler via dovecot: > >> Any help appreciated. > > https://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat > > -Ralph >

OK - I thought this was going to be easy. Maybe it is. I'm just not that good at reading directions. Trying to use dsync. Getting this error: Mail locations must use the same virtual mailbox hierarchy separator (specify separator for the default namespace) Currently using maildir. The setup is as follows: mail_uid = mail mail_gid = mail mail_location =

I'm implementing sdbox. In conf.d/10-mail.conf, with "maildir:" mail_location = maildir:/my_mailbox_path/%d/%n mail gets stored in /my_mailbox_path/%d/%n/new/ With "sdbox:" mail_location = sdbox:/my_mailbox_path/%d/%n mail gets stored in /my_mailbox_path/%d/%n/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails. How do I get rid of the '/mailboxes/' and '/dbox-Mails/' path

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?

Hello Jack, yes, I imagine I'll have to do some work on tuning the block size on cephfs. Thanks for the advise. I knew that using mdbox, messages are not removed but I though that was true in sdbox too. Thanks again. We'll soon do benchmarks of sdbox vs mdbox over cephfs with bluestore backend. We'll have to do some some work on how to simulate user traffic, for writes and readings.

Hi, some time back we had similar discussions when we, as an email provider, discussed to move away from traditional NAS/NFS storage to Ceph. The problem with POSIX file systems and dovecot is that e.g. with mdbox only around ~20% of the IO operations are READ/WRITE, the rest are metadata IOs. You will not change this with using CephFS since it will basically behave the same way as e.g. NFS. We

Hi, I'm about getting to know dovecot in details, I am about the command "doveadm user". The man page shows this example: userdb: jane uid : 8001 gid : 8001 home : /home/jane mail : sdbox:~/sdbox plugins : sieve quota_rule: *:storage=150M It seems to be nice, however I never got this only: ~# doveadm

I've updated http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation regarding a typical mail_location entry for dbox. Previously it said: mail_location = dbox:~/dbox but of course "dbox" is now the old name for "sdbox", so the example should be updated to say "sdbox" and there might/ought also to be an example for "mdbox". In

Hi, I originally picked mdbox because I had the impression from reading about it on the mailing list that it was more performant and that it would conserve disc space. But lately i found mailboxes have nearly double the storage as reported. I mean, IMAP QUOTA reports around 900MB for one account that has over 2GB when I inspect the mail location of the user using the linux command `du`