On 08/27/2015 16:26, Petter Gunnerud wrote: > Hi List How do I merge files from one maildir into another maildir? > > Long version: I've been using dovecot/postfix for a 12 user > environment for several years, and today was the first time I ran > into an issue I could not solve from reading the documentation. > > The server is gentoo running on esxi. A few times a year I've made a > snapshot of the server and copied the files to my home esxi server as > a full system backup. > > 5 days ago the internet connection at the office broke, and I decided > to power on the last copy of the server at my home and change public > dns so that users could access their new mails via webmail from this > spare server. (I didn't allow imap through firewall.) Now the network > at the office is back. DNS is updated so that mails are delivered to > the office server again. But all the mails sent / received during > those 5 days is only at my house. How can I merge those into the > office server?I'd like to do this as a server administrator. I do not > want to have each user forward the mails to them self from the > temporarily webmail. I tried to just copy the mail files on my own > account - like I did once when I used courier-imap, but that did not > work with dovecot. I hope someone has an idea of how to solve this. Just using rsync should work - I've done it before. You'll have to check the file system permissions.
The cleaner way would be to use imapsync or Dovecots dsync.
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