Re: noob maildir question

2022-01-25 Thread mikfum
Hi John I've been using courier-imap for several years in a relatively small reality with about twenty users, in view of a migration from real box to a virtual server I'm exploring dovecot as a possible alternative. I am used to stopping the service at night simply to make backups and

Re: noob maildir question

2022-01-24 Thread John Stoffel
mikfum> thanks John for the reply No problem! I'm not an expert by any stretch, but I've been using dovecot for years and doing It for way too many years... LOL! mikfum> what I would like to do is implement an autoarchive function mikfum> at server level that, in the night while dovecot is

Re: noob maildir question

2022-01-24 Thread mikfum
very nice!, you also made me find the wiki to look for answers to any other trivial questions without boring you... tx again ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ Il lunedì 24 gennaio 2022 12:15 PM, Felix Zielcke ha scritto: > Am Montag, dem 24.01.2022 um 10:18 + schrieb mikfum: > > > thanks

Re: noob maildir question

2022-01-24 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Montag, dem 24.01.2022 um 10:18 + schrieb mikfum: > thanks John for the reply > what I would like to do is implement an autoarchive function at > server level that, in the night while dovecot is down,  moves > messages older than n days from the user inbox to a subfolder of the > same user

Re: noob maildir question

2022-01-24 Thread mikfum
ok, not a 'mass action' but I search about imap tools, thanks! ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ Il lunedì 24 gennaio 2022 10:15 AM, Steven Varco ha scritto: > Hi Mik > > > I would like to ask if it is an acceptable practice to manage messages in > > the maildir as a file (move them from

Re: noob maildir question

2022-01-24 Thread mikfum
thanks ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ Il lunedì 24 gennaio 2022 5:15 AM, Ted Hatfield ha scritto: > I do this all the time on my server. From one user mailbox to another or > > from one maildir folder to another. On my platform I need to make certain > > owner/group of the moved messages

Re: noob maildir question

2022-01-24 Thread mikfum
ok thanks ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ Il lunedì 24 gennaio 2022 3:56 AM, ha scritto: > I would like to ask if it is an acceptable practice to manage messages in the > maildir as a file (move them from one folder to another) while dovecot is in > stop state thinking that it will be

Re: noob maildir question

2022-01-24 Thread mikfum
thanks John for the reply what I would like to do is implement an autoarchive function at server level that, in the night while dovecot is down, moves messages older than n days from the user inbox to a subfolder of the same user (cur to cur) tx mik ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ Il lunedì

Re: noob maildir question

2022-01-24 Thread Steven Varco
Hi Mik > I would like to ask if it is an acceptable practice to manage messages in the > maildir as a file (move them from one folder to another) while dovecot is in > stop state thinking that it will be rebuild to the next imap user login Maildir is actually designed to do so, as the storage

Re: noob maildir question

2022-01-23 Thread dovecot
> I would like to ask if it is an acceptable practice to manage messages in the > maildir as a file (move them from one folder to another) while dovecot is in > stop state thinking that it will be rebuild to the next imap user login Acceptable? That is subjective. It is your system. Big

Re: noob maildir question

2022-01-23 Thread John Stoffel
> "mikfum" == mikfum writes: mikfum> I would like to ask if it is an acceptable practice to manage mikfum> messages in the maildir as a file (move them from one folder mikfum> to another) while dovecot is in stop state thinking that it mikfum> will be rebuild to the next imap user login

noob maildir question

2022-01-23 Thread mikfum
I would like to ask if it is an acceptable practice to manage messages in the maildir as a file (move them from one folder to another) while dovecot is in stop state thinking that it will be rebuild to the next imap user login thanks for your patience:) mik