For some reason your original email showed up only now. Can you post your doveconf from the *old* server as well as doveconf from *new* server, so it would make it lot easier to know why it's not working.
Aki > On 04/12/2025 12:38 EET byteme--- via dovecot <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > I have a Dovecot 2.3 installation on a Debian 12 Linux system that is being > upgraded to Dovecot 2.4. The server hosts many domains with numerous email > accounts. Users had created folder structures containing many received and > sent emails, following the Maildir standard as "dot-prefixed folders." > > When switching to Dovecot 2.4, all these emails and folders are no longer > visible. This is what it looks like on the old system: > > root@mx1 /var/vmail/example.com/systemmails # ll -a > insgesamt 256 > drwx------ 14 vmail vmail 4096 3. Nov 09:15 . > drwx------ 15 vmail vmail 4096 6. Apr 2021 .. > drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 3. Nov 09:15 .Archive > drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 86016 27. Okt 12:19 cur > -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 0 15. Sep 2018 dovecot-acl-list > -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 1080 29. Okt 06:50 dovecot.index > -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 23400 30. Okt 01:36 dovecot.index.cache > -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 10600 30. Okt 01:41 dovecot.index.log > -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 6627 26. Aug 09:56 dovecot.index.thread > -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 24 20. Apr 2024 dovecot-keywords > -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 1256 3. Nov 09:05 dovecot.list.index > -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 5156 3. Nov 09:15 dovecot.list.index.log > -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 672 15. Jul 16:45 dovecot.mailbox.log > -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 1781 30. Okt 01:36 dovecot-uidlist > -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 8 15. Jul 16:45 dovecot-uidvalidity > -r--r--r-- 1 vmail 1002 0 15. Sep 2018 dovecot-uidvalidity.5b9d20a3 > -r--r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 0 15. Sep 2018 dovecot-uidvalidity.5b9d20a5 > drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 3. Nov 09:15 .Drafts > drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 3. Nov 09:15 .INBOX.Fail2ban > drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 3. Nov 09:15 .INBOX.vzdump > drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 3. Nov 09:15 .Junk > drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 36864 30. Okt 01:36 new > drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 3. Nov 09:15 .Quarantine > drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 3. Nov 09:15 .Sent > drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4096 3. Dez 06:25 sieve > -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 70 15. Jul 16:45 subscriptions > drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2. Nov 16:41 tmp > drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 3. Nov 09:15 .Trash > > This should be preserved so that users don't notice the system upgrade. > Dovecot 2.4 works quite differently in this regard. What solution is there > for migrating both the namespace and the existing emails to Dovecot 2.4? > > Thank you for your suggestions > > ByteMe > _______________________________________________ > dovecot mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] _______________________________________________ dovecot mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
