#copy mailbox, using new mail_location setting
doveadm backup -u "${USER}" maildir:/home/${USERNAME}/Maildir/
doveadm sync -u "${USER}" maildir:/home/${USERNAME}/Maildir/
#Update user to use maildir instead of old method, update sql?
.... mail_location=maildir:/home/${USERNAME}/Maildir/
doveadm auth cache flush
doveadm proxy kick "${USER}"
#copy any late additions to mailbox, using old mail_location setting
doveadm sync -u "${USER}" mbox:/var/mail/${USERNAME}
#remove old format mailbox
rm /var/mail/${USERNAME}
I do this one user at a time, then when done adjust my config file,
and remove the mail_location setting from sql, though my script has a
few other fixups and error checking
Quoting Kenneth Irving <k...@fq.edu.uy>:
Hello. I have an email server for testing purposes, using postfix
3.5.17 and dovecot 2.3.13.
Initially, I configured postfix to use mailboxes, but now I've
changed it to maildir.
Emails arrive fine, and dovecot manages them well by pop3 or imap.
No problems there.
But I still have a lot of emails in different mailboxes which I'd
like to convert to maildir.
I found mb2md, which seems to do a pretty good job. Once the mailbox
is converted, dovecot manages the emails without a problem.
But I also wanted to learn how to use doveadm to convert mailboxes
to maildir format.
I read all the documentation I could find and tried to learn how
this command works. I tried different combinations, but couldn't
convert mailboxes to maildir. I always get error messages. I've been
unable to understand why.
I tried to sync, backup, and import, to no avail. I also tried
dsync, which seems to have a different syntax, with the same result.
Sorry for bothering you, but if you could explain to me how this
command works, I'd be very grateful.
Example: I have a user, let's say joe, who has a mailbox in
/var/mail/joe and I'd like to transfer those emails to
/home/joe/Maildir
How do I use doveadm in this situation?
Best regards
Kenneth
