On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 at 12:58, Paul Kudla (SCOM.CA Internet Services Inc.) <p...@scom.ca> wrote: > > > ok u...@domain.com needs to exist before any operations can be done on it. > > I discovered that dovecot does not consider a virtual mailbox active > until it is returned in the user database > > see : doveadm user '*' > > both accounts MUST be returned in the list (user@.net & user@.com) > > from there it should work as expected. > > i went through this with my django email user interface as the user was > not being saved in the database until the django model had completing > saving a new entry, thus when creating the new account i had to put a > delay check in my create email account that continued to loop until > django had finished it's processing, very anoying (not dovecot's issue) > but i think you are facing something similiar? > > > it seems you might be renaming the mbox ? > > again both user@.net & user@.com must exist along the way before the > account(s) can be accessed. > > if renaming the mbox is your intention than add the user@.com account > > move should now work > > then delete the user@.net account.
Thanks Paul. I finally got around to looking at this again, and for my own benefit, and perhaps anyone else in the future, the format that eventually worked was: doveadm -Dv move -u u...@destination.com INBOX user user @source.net MAILBOX INBOX ALL However... the -v option does NOT as the man page indicates produce any kind of progress counter. -v Enables verbosity, including progress counter. On a medium mailbox (~1000 messages) it took about 3 minutes, with no indication anything was being done until the prompt returned. Maybe I need -D -v and not -Dv? AND, it moved all the mails from /var/spool/mail/virtual/source.net/user/cur but none of the emails from /var/spool/mail/virtual/source.net/user/new And I have not been able to figure how to move those... Simon
