Webuzo email migration

[ID10T]

I didn’t do a move (mv) because I had a lot of ‘interesting stuff’ in the folder. This mailbox even has some mbox format files in it. I have no idea if they are even readable. I copied over cur, new, tmp and subscriptions. I didn’t see any of the other stuff in a cleanly created new account so I am trying to keep this migration clean.

Any of these other files I should move? Not doing so hasn’t hurt the box so far. Only thing are folders are stored as hidden files and cp didn’t touch them.

root@main:/home/backups/oooonew/mail/outofor.org/fred# ll
total 216
drwxr-x— 2 1406 1408 4096 Sep 7 2015 courierimapkeywords
-rw-r----- 1 1406 1408 102 Apr 4 2015 courierimapsubscribed
-rw-r–r-- 1 1406 1408 17037 Sep 7 2015 courierimapuiddb
drwxr-x–x 2 1406 1408 24576 Feb 16 13:46 cur
-rw-r----- 1 1406 1408 0 Sep 14 2015 dovecot-acl-list
-rw-r----- 1 1406 1408 7160 Feb 15 19:00 dovecot.index
-rw-r----- 1 1406 1408 32248 Feb 16 13:46 dovecot.index.cache
-rw-r----- 1 1406 1408 15196 Feb 16 13:46 dovecot.index.log
-rw-r----- 1 1406 1408 32924 Feb 14 14:49 dovecot.index.log.2
-rw-r----- 1 1406 1408 7174 Oct 20 2015 dovecot.index.thread
-rw-r–r-- 1 1406 1408 30 Sep 14 2015 dovecot-keywords
-rw-r----- 1 1406 1408 1944 Feb 14 16:39 dovecot.list.index
-rw-r----- 1 1406 1408 7092 Feb 16 13:43 dovecot.list.index.log
-rw-r----- 1 1406 1408 480 Nov 25 2021 dovecot.mailbox.log
-rw-r----- 1 1406 1408 54 Feb 18 19:09 dovecot-quota
-rw-r----- 1 1406 1408 19692 Feb 16 13:46 dovecot-uidlist
-rw-r----- 1 1406 1408 8 Nov 25 2021 dovecot-uidvalidity
-r–r–r-- 1 1406 1408 0 Oct 17 2015 dovecot-uidvalidity.56230f95
-rw-r----- 1 1406 1408 27 Feb 18 19:09 maildirsize
drwxr-x–x 2 1406 1408 4096 Feb 16 13:46 new
-rw-r----- 1 1406 1408 149 Nov 25 2021 subscriptions
drwxr-x–x 2 1406 1408 4096 Feb 16 13:46 tmp

[ID10T]

Just for clarity, now that I’ve recreated this account I did find that the system does use these but doesn’t keep them in the client directory.

/var/lib/dovecot-virtualmin/index/herm@cisnemin.com/.Drafts/dovecot.index.log
/var/lib/dovecot-virtualmin/index/herm@cisnemin.com/.INBOX/dovecot.index.log
/var/lib/dovecot-

Not having them does seem to impact the client. Mostly the filters that put things in the right folder seem to break and they have to be re-enabled for each filter. Not sure I trust trying to put them into the system files though.

[ID10T]

Mostly at staff but anyone with knowledge. It might make life easier if I move the dovecot files to the /var/lib/wherever they belong directory/
Some are being recreated. Not sure if the ones I haven’t seen so far will make a difference as they are all dovecot. Just use ‘no clobber’?
dovecot-acl-list
dovecot.index.log.2
dovecot.mailbox.log
dovecot-uidvalidity.5820b658
dovecot.index
dovecot-keywords
dovecot-quota
dovecot.index.cache
dovecot.list.index
dovecot-uidlist
dovecot.index.log
dovecot.list.index.log
dovecot-uidvalidity

[ID10T]

It occurred to me to change the config to just put the dovecot folders in the home folder. It seems that is the ‘default’ but Webmin uses a custom setting to put it in /var/lib set for some reason? Is that to keep the files away from customers or has it spawned some other problem in the past?