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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2014-01-01 2:02 PM, Wayne Davison
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:wayned@samba.org"><wayned@samba.org></a> wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 3:59 AM,
Charles Marcus <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">On the old server,
dovecot is configured to just use .../<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://example.com/user"
target="_blank">example.com/user</a> for the maildirs.<br>
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On the target server, I want to change this to .../<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://example.com/user/Maildir" target="_blank">example.com/user/Maildir</a></div>
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One thing you can do is to add a symlink on the sending side
to point the Maildir to '.', and then run rsync with -R
--no-implied-dirs and both the normal top-level dir and a path
down to the Maildir/ (with the trailing slash) plus an exclude
of the files in the user dir and the symlink itself. For
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<pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">mkdir -p /tmp/src/user
touch /tmp/src/user/{one,two,three}
ln -s . /tmp/src/user/Maildir
rsync -aivR --no-implied-dirs \
--include='/src/user/Maildir/' --exclude='/src/user/Maildir/Maildir' \
--exclude='/src/user/*' \
/tmp/./src /tmp/./src/user/Maildir/ /tmp/dest/
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Thanks Wayne... I've filed this (in my 'tips-n-tricks' folder) for
future reference.<br>
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However, since this won't be an ongoing thing forever, I'll just
keep things the way they are now (same layout on both), then when
I'm ready to flip the switch, stop dovecot on the new server, do the
transformation, change the dovecot config and start it back up.<br>
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Then all I have to do is deal with the users complaining about all
of their folders showing up as subfolders of the Inbox, and explain
to them how to remove the INBOX. namespace prefix in their mail
client (this is a system that was converted some time ago from an
old courier-imap setup)...<br>
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Best regards,<br>
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<b><i>Charles</i></b><br>
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