Re: devoid mailbox status for mail reloaded from a tape backup
On Dec 10, 2014, at 1:42 AM, Steffen Kaiser skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 9 Dec 2014, Stephen Lidie wrote: On Dec 9, 2014, at 11:00 AM, Steffen Kaiser skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de wrote: On Tue, 9 Dec 2014, Stephen Lidie wrote: On Dec 9, 2014, at 2:34 AM, Steffen Kaiser skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de wrote: On Mon, 8 Dec 2014, Stephen Lidie wrote: For me this is working, too: doveadm -o mail_location=maildir:/home/user2/Maildir mailbox status \ -u user1 all INBOX Eureka!! The magic incantation snippet I was seeking :) I had tried, variously, placing this simple string: mail_location=mdbox:/home/RESTORE/homeb/userName/mail:INDEX=/home/RESTORE/var/dovecot/index/userName So, where exactly did I fail to find -o documented? http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm - -o is a global option. Dovecot v2.2.15: man doveadm /-oENTER :-) man doveadm|egrep -i '\-o' -o setting=value ple settings, the -o option may be specified multiple times. However, I always wonder about the quoting [different shells behave differently] and would use: man doveadm|egrep -i -- -o The reason I did not see -o is because that option is NOT documented in the man pages for my dovecot installation, for whatever reason! Either of our egreps would have found it if only it had been there :( [root]# man doveadm|egrep -i '\-v' -v Enables verbosity, including progress counter. [root]# man doveadm|egrep -i '\-o' [root]# man doveadm|egrep -i -- -o [root]# man doveadm|egrep -i -- -v -v Enables verbosity, including progress counter. [root]# FWIW this is CentOS 7 with dovecot installed from an RPM: [root]# yum list dovecot Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, versionlock Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: linux.cc.lehigh.edu * epel: mirror.umd.edu * extras: mirror.es.its.nyu.edu * updates: mirrors.advancedhosters.com Installed Packages dovecot.x86_641:2.2.10-4.el7_0.1 @updates thx/stv
Re: devoid mailbox status for mail reloaded from a tape backup
On 12/10/2014 01:54 PM, Stephen Lidie wrote: The reason I did not see -o is because that option is NOT documented in the man pages for my dovecot installation, for whatever reason! Either of our egreps would have found it if only it had been there :( [root]# man doveadm|egrep -i '\-v' -v Enables verbosity, including progress counter. [root]# man doveadm|egrep -i '\-o' [root]# man doveadm|egrep -i -- -o [root]# man doveadm|egrep -i -- -v -v Enables verbosity, including progress counter. [root]# FWIW this is CentOS 7 with dovecot installed from an RPM: [root]# yum list dovecot Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, versionlock Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: linux.cc.lehigh.edu * epel: mirror.umd.edu * extras: mirror.es.its.nyu.edu * updates: mirrors.advancedhosters.com Installed Packages dovecot.x86_641:2.2.10-4.el7_0.1 @updates Documentation for -o was added recently, it is not even on the man-pages of the 2.2.15 release. br, Teemu Huovila
Re: devoid mailbox status for mail reloaded from a tape backup
On Dec 10, 2014, at 7:50 AM, Teemu Huovila teemu.huov...@dovecot.fi wrote: Documentation for -o was added recently, it is not even on the man-pages of the 2.2.15 release. Thank you, Steve
Re: devoid mailbox status for mail reloaded from a tape backup
On Dec 9, 2014, at 2:34 AM, Steffen Kaiser skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 8 Dec 2014, Stephen Lidie wrote: 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
Re: devoid mailbox status for mail reloaded from a tape backup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 9 Dec 2014, Stephen Lidie wrote: On Dec 9, 2014, at 2:34 AM, Steffen Kaiser skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de wrote: On Mon, 8 Dec 2014, Stephen Lidie wrote: 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, 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. if the user does not exist at all, you could create a dummy restore account, where you restore the data to and can use as any other user. This would work for any existing user, too. For me this is working, too: doveadm -o mail_location=maildir:/home/user2/Maildir mailbox status \ -u user1 all INBOX shows the same as doveadm mailbox status -u user2 all INBOX but not the same as: doveadm mailbox status -u user1 all INBOX So, if you craft a good -o mail_location= and an -u, which has access permissions on filesystem level (e.g. if you are using system users), it should work. Maybe, you need to specify -o home=..., too. - -- Steffen Kaiser -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBVIccm3z1H7kL/d9rAQJ5sAgAnwLKX+GHvrvdnWOkMfAVl68tamJCZEvw 7tWQCjK7LpcctjiRO7xFVZSKq4OruD6tkU0pnPut6w2sIL8DIhp4lyVBHbuNMA4s QyA0oLq2tMfEYEiSn8g1G5NpCPnSeo8uFinhHcSAwPWJNo5ly22QHZmZI787olM2 Q7A2insZTvVKLSOe+tcK8SMX05GJLXb5lIRQHj2SkvkmBFiMKI2s6xxakLmEnB4h 3LOFqMoXTmvgGioOtoppZxPJ5jJfUNyGGCfDH7CmKwg6nbUpehf61OdQekCUSoH7 383RgWCW/BUb6ink9nzQDVGLSRCmzT5U0KRZ7nkMobqjuwZ/8L0AMw== =oNin -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: devoid mailbox status for mail reloaded from a tape backup
On Dec 9, 2014, at 11:00 AM, Steffen Kaiser skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 9 Dec 2014, Stephen Lidie wrote: On Dec 9, 2014, at 2:34 AM, Steffen Kaiser skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de wrote: On Mon, 8 Dec 2014, Stephen Lidie wrote: 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, 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. if the user does not exist at all, you could create a dummy restore account, where you restore the data to and can use as any other user. This would work for any existing user, too. True, that was my last resort, because I'd have to go through channels to get a real dummy username added to the University's LDAP server, then I'd have to to an actual import, and finally the status. For me this is working, too: doveadm -o mail_location=maildir:/home/user2/Maildir mailbox status \ -u user1 all INBOX Eureka!! The magic incantation snippet I was seeking :) I had tried, variously, placing this simple string: mail_location=mdbox:/home/RESTORE/homeb/userName/mail:INDEX=/home/RESTORE/var/dovecot/index/userName at various points on the doveadm command line, I tried exporting the string as the environment variables mail_location and MAIL_LOCATION, and I tried to find some option that would accept an alternate mail_location. I even briefly scanned the force code but saw immediately that that solution would be slow going :) I just now tried to find where -o was documented, to no avail: # man doveadm|egrep -i '\-o' # man doveadm mailbox|egrep -i '\-o' # man doveadm help|egrep -i '\-o' So, where exactly did I fail to find -o documented? Now I (or an operator) can pre-scan candidate mail files pulled from tape before actually restoring them for a real user account, to help narrow down the results. Did I mention that this is the exact solution I was hoping for?! Many thanks, Steve shows the same as doveadm mailbox status -u user2 all INBOX but not the same as: doveadm mailbox status -u user1 all INBOX So, if you craft a good -o mail_location= and an -u, which has access permissions on filesystem level (e.g. if you are using system users), it should work. Maybe, you need to specify -o home=..., too. - -- Steffen Kaiser -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBVIccm3z1H7kL/d9rAQJ5sAgAnwLKX+GHvrvdnWOkMfAVl68tamJCZEvw 7tWQCjK7LpcctjiRO7xFVZSKq4OruD6tkU0pnPut6w2sIL8DIhp4lyVBHbuNMA4s QyA0oLq2tMfEYEiSn8g1G5NpCPnSeo8uFinhHcSAwPWJNo5ly22QHZmZI787olM2 Q7A2insZTvVKLSOe+tcK8SMX05GJLXb5lIRQHj2SkvkmBFiMKI2s6xxakLmEnB4h 3LOFqMoXTmvgGioOtoppZxPJ5jJfUNyGGCfDH7CmKwg6nbUpehf61OdQekCUSoH7 383RgWCW/BUb6ink9nzQDVGLSRCmzT5U0KRZ7nkMobqjuwZ/8L0AMw== =oNin -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: devoid mailbox status for mail reloaded from a tape backup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 9 Dec 2014, Stephen Lidie wrote: On Dec 9, 2014, at 11:00 AM, Steffen Kaiser skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de wrote: On Tue, 9 Dec 2014, Stephen Lidie wrote: On Dec 9, 2014, at 2:34 AM, Steffen Kaiser skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de wrote: On Mon, 8 Dec 2014, Stephen Lidie wrote: For me this is working, too: doveadm -o mail_location=maildir:/home/user2/Maildir mailbox status \ -u user1 all INBOX Eureka!! The magic incantation snippet I was seeking :) I had tried, variously, placing this simple string: mail_location=mdbox:/home/RESTORE/homeb/userName/mail:INDEX=/home/RESTORE/var/dovecot/index/userName So, where exactly did I fail to find -o documented? http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm - -o is a global option. Dovecot v2.2.15: man doveadm /-oENTER :-) man doveadm|egrep -i '\-o' -o setting=value ple settings, the -o option may be specified multiple times. However, I always wonder about the quoting [different shells behave differently] and would use: man doveadm|egrep -i -- -o === Actually, I remember a post of Timo each time such question comes up. And this time I dug it up in the man pages. - -- Steffen Kaiser -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBVIfraHz1H7kL/d9rAQISHwf/SM1vlpIaYPmkm7yflIUi6HiNlsLLSvvO 9mE5eo4AZ3d+lmfR4eb5FCYtylkGdI9Uekji9vVJ/3xYEiZWt39/ju6IA15zhajS zR71E59wa4Df49kRkB5OKAhsaWw60Dcxtb3+wQ1gdxglT6RsabwSGlQjOcGGoQtT 0RwsQXMCdfmjRpx1Xrp/fQn3iFQLMw2TyzAfwWpREy2MBnElyjknYCCKsXDYC8XY l+XpnamxLbJuJOB2itJtGpwrCugVaoLMQoqpM3EeG/2/SXiic98AvMFxnHlcsQmy JjLLE1Ki2f+bpKHtDgEz7CVHMIDR0EU1aUc2Tojb5D2aIVmWkjtf9A== =dzCo -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: devoid mailbox status for mail reloaded from a tape backup
On Dec 8, 2014, at 5:25 PM, Stephen Lidie s...@lehigh.edu wrote: dovecot --version 2.2.10 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, Steve 1) subject should read doveadm mailbox status 2) to clarify, something like an alternate source, as with doveadm import.
Re: devoid mailbox status for mail reloaded from a tape backup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 8 Dec 2014, Stephen Lidie wrote: 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 - -- Steffen Kaiser -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBVIal9Hz1H7kL/d9rAQIFOQf/RhmEWkElrFpbPcEZ9fkKj9B0jlGqzWDO t8nP2jC6Bza5zrRs+se5LmJhB32WIFU5vycv+XpdL3ucsumpZt2c1zDfG+3EqY1U Tu34xSNDdtjxwZunQDv61llzmQRhAYmJV8VhZq6NWiz2qH16rr9b6JgR7mG9sSFw dYFgMmqMxwK4csSi9u1SSSH8WUV3fNw9DdjQ1094DiPAEJba+WoSJA3tzBGW7Wu5 iZ6TyHSYxKnEjhcjWObZ20TtvhRmUxvxj7Q0f4U+H5+cJoUlXmakg9oar3hayKG2 LYflvKCZEObI0ZZK48sj9tyFb5bhKQ0b+twmfjfholmBoHURcxhOwQ== =OTJZ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
