> On Dec 9, 2014, at 2:34 AM, Steffen Kaiser <skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de>
> wrote:
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> On Mon, 8 Dec 2014, Stephen Lidie wrote:
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>> I've only be able to status a mailbox for currently existing users, is it
>> possible to status a mailbox reloaded from tape to an alternate location?
>> The user may or may not exist at this time, but I still need to inspect the
>> mailbox ... thank you,
>
> yes
>
:)
Well, although I am able to issue a mailbox status command regardless, the
implication was that the command displayed an empty string (nothing useful),
and thus a working example using files not in the locations specified by
mail_location would be useful. In my configuration mail_locations is defined as:
mail_location = mdbox:~/mail:INDEX=/var/dovecot/index/%u
So a command of the form “doveadm mailbox status -u userName all INBOX” uses
mail_location as defined in dovecot.conf to locate the mail and index files,
and displays appropriate information about the specified user’s INBOX.
If I have mail and index files in an alternate location - restored from a
backup tape for example - how do I obtain data such as unseen, message count,
vsize, etc about mailboxes residing at that alternate location, a location not
pointed to by mail_location? As I mentioned, “doveadm import” allows one to
provide an alternate source location, but “doveadm mailbox status” does not
AFAIK, thus, a sample command would be wonderful.
thx/stv
