Re: [EXT] Re: doveadm expunge not expunging anymore

[Sami Ketola]

> On 17 Mar 2020, at 16.43, mabi <m...@protonmail.ch> wrote:
> 
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Tuesday, March 17, 2020 3:26 PM, Sami Ketola <sami.ket...@dovecot.fi> 
> wrote:
> 
>> So your rsync did not preserve mail object ctimes. Dovecot uses that for 
>> internal date if correct value is not in dovecot.index.cache.
> 
> Oh I see, so that's quite unfortunate that rsync does not preserve the ctime. 
> They should have a big warning in their man page...
> 
> So what would be the correct process for moving/copying mails from one 
> mailbox server to another in order to avoid this issue?

Since you were migrating dovecot->dovecot I would have just used Dsync.

Sami