Dovecot Operations

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dovecot

Backup a Mailbox

On the Dovecot server host:

cd .../<user-home>
tar -cvspf - Maildir | gzip > yyyy.mm.dd-dovecot-IMAP-<user-name>-Maildir.tar.gz

Restore a Mailbox

As root:

cd .../<user-home>

The following command will create a Maildir subdirectory, so if there's one already, back it up:

gunzip < archive.tar.gz | tar -xvspf -

Restore ownership:

chown -R <dovecot-owner-uid>:<dovecot-owner-gid> Maildir

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