On 13.3.2012, at 16.36, Marcio Merlone wrote: > Hi people, > > When a user archives a message from Thunderbird it moves to an IMAP folder > "Archives", everyone knows that. I use dovecot 1:1.2.9-1ubuntu6.5 on Ubuntu > 10.04 and want to move that folder (and respective IMAP sub-folders) to a > slower storage, link it to original location and my first idea for this is > > find -type d -name .Archives\* -print0 | \ > while read -d $'\0' archive; do \ > mv "$archive" /dead/Emails/jhon.doe/; \ > ln -s "/dead/Emails/jhon.doe/$archive" .; done > > It works, given that the files are not locked. I could restart dovecot before > so it would unlock the files, but there is no guarantee it does not get > locked again before the find finishes.
I'm not sure what you mean by locks. dovecot-uidlist.lock? Anyway, the above is safe only if the IMAP client doesn't try to access the mailboxes during the move. Otherwise it can become confused. > I took a look on mailling list archives, but could not find something like > that and was wondering what you guys use (if any) for such task and what are > the recommendations, best practices, solutions for that? A perfectly working solution would be to (upgrade to v2.x and) switch to sdbox or mdbox format with alt storage enabled, then you could simply do: doveadm altmove -A mailbox 'Archives*' all
