Re: Retrieving mail from read-only mdbox

2017-06-05 Thread Teemu Huovila
On 01.06.2017 00:30, Mark Moseley wrote: > This is a 'has anyone run into this and solved it' post. And yes, I've been > reading and re-reading TFM but without luck. The background is that I'm > working on tooling before we start a mass maildir->mdbox conversion. One of > those tools is

Re: Retrieving mail from read-only mdbox

2017-06-01 Thread Peter Benko
>This is a 'has anyone run into this and solved it' post. And yes, I've been >reading and re-reading TFM but without luck. The background is that I'm >working on tooling before we start a mass maildir->mdbox conversion. One of >those tools is recovering mail from backups (easy as pie with

Re: Retrieving mail from read-only mdbox

2017-06-01 Thread Mark Moseley
On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 3:24 PM, M. Balridge wrote: > Quoting Mark Moseley : > > > I've tried using IMAP with mail_location pointed at the snapshot, but, > > though I can get a listing of emails in the mailbox, the fetch fails when > > dovecot can't

Re: Retrieving mail from read-only mdbox

2017-06-01 Thread Mark Moseley
> > > > > > I've tried using IMAP with mail_location pointed at the snapshot, but, > > > though I can get a listing of emails in the mailbox, the fetch fails > when > > > dovecot can't write-lock dovecot.index.log. > > > > I've thought about doing this someday (adding snapshots to a user's > >

Re: Retrieving mail from read-only mdbox

2017-05-31 Thread Aki Tuomi
> On June 1, 2017 at 4:05 AM Joseph Tam wrote: > > > > > I've tried using IMAP with mail_location pointed at the snapshot, but, > > though I can get a listing of emails in the mailbox, the fetch fails when > > dovecot can't write-lock dovecot.index.log. > > I've thought

Re: Retrieving mail from read-only mdbox

2017-05-31 Thread Joseph Tam
I've tried using IMAP with mail_location pointed at the snapshot, but, though I can get a listing of emails in the mailbox, the fetch fails when dovecot can't write-lock dovecot.index.log. I've thought about doing this someday (adding snapshots to a user's namespace) but never got around to

Re: Retrieving mail from read-only mdbox

2017-05-31 Thread M. Balridge
Quoting Mark Moseley : > I've tried using IMAP with mail_location pointed at the snapshot, but, > though I can get a listing of emails in the mailbox, the fetch fails when > dovecot can't write-lock dovecot.index.log. I'm surprised that dovecot would even try to write-lock

Retrieving mail from read-only mdbox

2017-05-31 Thread Mark Moseley
This is a 'has anyone run into this and solved it' post. And yes, I've been reading and re-reading TFM but without luck. The background is that I'm working on tooling before we start a mass maildir->mdbox conversion. One of those tools is recovering mail from backups (easy as pie with maildir).