Thanks Steffan, I will test the move at the filesystem level.
The virtual user still exists, although I have changed her password. Dovecot is configured to authenticate users via LDAP to Active Directory. If there's a better method of moving maildir via Dovecot rather than through the filesystem I would like to do so. Thanks, David -----Original Message----- From: Steffen Kaiser [mailto:skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de] Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 12:33 AM To: David Varela Cc: 'Dovecot Mailing List' Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Nee assistance with migrating/copying a virtual user's maildir to another virtual user -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, David Varela wrote: > I am trying to move/copy a virtual user's maildir to another virtual > user but am running into problems with dsync and doveadm. I'm trying > to move the maildir of a user who is no longer with the company to a manager's maildir. > > For doveadm I am using the command: > doveadm move -u scavena...@lamontanita.coop > jhenn...@lamontanita.coop/INBOX/scavenaugh INBOX ALL > > The error is: > > doveadm(scavena...@lamontanita.coop): Error: user > scavena...@lamontanita.coop: Auth USER lookup failed > > /var/log/dovecot.log shows: > > passdb doesn't support lookups, can't verify user's existence The user is gone from passdb already, right? Re-create the entry with another password or password-locked. Or, move the directories on filesystem level, e.g. something like: cd user-Maildir-basedirectory rename 's/\A(\.[^.].*)/.usr_XYZ$1/' .[^.]* mkdir -p .usr_XYZ.INBOX/{new,cur,tmp} touch .usr_XYZ.INBOX/maildirfolder chown -R vmail:vmail .usr_XYZ.INBOX mv .usr_XYZ* manage-Maildir-basedirectory .usr_XYZ is a prefix for a mail folder hierarchie identifying the user. vmail:vmail are the necessary Unix owner/group for the newly created directories with mkdir two lines above. The rename command renames all directory entries that start with a single dot to have the prefix, that should be directories only in a Maildir. - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBUg3HrF3r2wJMiz2NAQL1pQf9GeIEnLfG0zkFXPJ/J2CB/wmGP4m/MCMp BHxkRiLxXNezK4ckeliaLbpOD+NVyABc2n33tW11qav6IWrLTiGm9+A5p8TUOhfJ wMWBNJ0TEjtTM+0EbGJlOhkQ0QFooobfc5Sl30qR02yF+vk+SkBdRpkZK7ulpSPf 0ZtwIFF804NzMaKzZP2/SG77Z6JyW1N/TgaJ8QFtZwPrYymzD3iqtaFgoBAZqpSA g5koZIen0wjHy905Sy+uLseAFj6UIuhVdN8eG18NibaTHRBct3rTeyWAQY8GVZLq pPggEdUqHeTvrua5CzrL70iDbdcr29xezlvkxRueeDrGOApIprN4Mg== =1T6x -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
