Hi!
i have a question for you guys, i have been playing with this issue for
a while and i am a bit lost.
I have dovecot 2.2.16 on a Gentoo linux server, which run a couple of
email domains, linked with postfix.
I have a huge (>4gb) Outlook PST file which contains a backup coming
from a new user, he used to have this backup on his old email system and
i need to dump it into his new email account on my server. This is just
a "old" backup which needs to be kept for reference, there is no need to
preserve any ID/UID/GUID whatever.
So, i found the "readpst" util which is capable ot reading the PST file
and dump it's contents as mbox structure. (see
http://bit-vonameln.de/email-migration-outlook-dovecot-imap/)
I did it and i got a 4.4gb folder with some sub-folders, attachments,
and more files inside.
Then i spent most of a few days trying to have dovecot digest this and
import it on top of the user new email address. With no luck.
I have being trying with doveadm sync but i cannot find how i need to do
it.
Note that:
1) there is no local user, only the mail user (u...@hisdomain.org)
2) i use maildir, the PST has been converted to mbox
3) dovecot is compiled with maildir and mbox support
I tried, for example:
server # export mail_location=mbox:/path/to/mbox/converted/emails
server # doveadm sync -u u...@hisdomain.org -d
doveadm(u...@hisdomain.org): Fatal: User has no mail_replica in userdb
Then i tried:
server # export mail_location=/home/vmail/hisdomain.org/user/maildir
server # doveadm sync -u u...@hisdomain.org
mbox:/path/to/mbox/converted/emails
dsync(u...@hisdomain.org): Error: Mail locations must use the same
virtual mailbox hierarchy separator (specify separator for the default
namespace)
Also tried:
server # export mail_location=/home/vmail/hisdomain.org/user/maildir
server # doveadm sync -u u...@hisdomain.org
/path/to/mbox/converted/emails
doveadm(u...@hisdomain.org): Fatal:
execvp(/home/vmail/hisdomain.org/user/maildir) failed: Permission denied
dsync-local(u...@hisdomain.org): Error: read(remote) failed: EOF
(version not received)
My dovecot is configured to use "maildir", the most relevant part of my
dovecot.conf is:
auth_debug = no
login_greeting = Dovecot ready.
mail_debug = no
auth_debug_passwords = no
auth_default_realm = mydomain.org
auth_mechanisms = plain login
auth_realms = <list of my domains here>
auth_verbose = no
base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/
disable_plaintext_auth = no
mail_uid=999
mail_gid=999
listen = *
mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/maildir
protocols = imap sieve lmtp
(i can add omitted lines if needed)
either i am not undesrtanding anything, which is totally possible, or i
am missing something big.
If anybody on this list has any insight or suggestion, pelase advise!
ps: the destination mailbox is perfectly new and empty, it's already
existing and the user can successfully login, send and receive emails.
Dovecot works great, and i am operating locally on the server where i
uploaded the converted mbox folders.
--
Willy Gardiol
wi...@gardiol.org
www.gardiol.org
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