On 22.12.2013, at 17.13, Charles Marcus <cmar...@media-brokers.com> wrote:
> Ok, I know I should probably be using dsync for this, but I'm more familiar > with rsync, and didn't think this would be a problem. > > Here is what I am doing, and what is apparently happening (only done this > once, but I'm guessing it will happen each time): > > rsync -avHP /mnt/vmail/example.com/user1/ /var/vmail/example.com/user1/ > > chown -R vmail:vmail /var/vmail/example.com > > Ok, so far so good, everything works fine accessing the mails (I'm using > Thunderbird). > > Now I do another rsync, but this time I did the entire mailstore: > > rsync -avHP /mnt/vmail/example.com/ /var/vmail/example.com/ > > chown -R vmail:vmail /var/vmail/example.com > > Right after I started up dovecot again, I hot a bunch of these in the logs: > > 2013-12-22T09:52:51-05:00 newhost dovecot: imap(us...@example.com): Warning: > Maildir /var/vmail/example.com/user1/: Expunged message reappeared, giving a > new UID (old uid=45516, > file=1387468268.Vfe02Ic1343fM845754.oldhost.sub.example.com:2,ST) > 2013-12-22T09:52:51-05:00 newhost dovecot: imap(us...@example.com): Warning: > Maildir /var/vmail/example.com/user1/: Expunged message reappeared, giving a > new UID (old uid=45518, > file=1387468645.Vfe02Ic73e0eM530539.oldhost.sub.example.com:2,ST) > > The problem is, it looks like every single message that was flagged as unread > is now duplicated on the new system. > > Also - not that this is a problem, but all of the old messages have the fqdn > of the old server in the individual email file names - > oldhost.sub.example.com - while the new ones only have the local hostname > (newhost) The hostname doesn't matter. > Did I do something wrong? Or is this going to be an unavoidable problem if I > want to use rsync to do the final migration that using dsync would avoid? Use rsync --delete to get rid of the extra mails in destination. And of course don't deliver any new mails to destination before that is done. :)
