> On 28 Feb 2023, at 5:53 pm, Aki Tuomi <aki.tu...@open-xchange.com> wrote: > >> On 28/02/2023 03:54 EET James Brown <jlbr...@bordo.com.au> wrote: >> >> I’m moving from an old mail server to a new one. >> >> On the new one, trying to transfer mailboxes from the old machine using >> doveadm. It fails saying it can’f find doveadm: >> >> % sudo doveadm -Dv backup -R -u myu...@bordo.com.au remote:mail.bordo.com.au >> Password: >> Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/doveadm >> ... >> (r...@mail.bordo.com.au) Password: >> sh: doveadm: command not found >> Feb 28 12:42:06 dsync-local(myu...@bordo.com.au)<SJq/Iepb/WMOLAEAiJz6GQ>: >> Error: read(mail.bordo.com.au) failed: EOF (version not received) >> Feb 28 12:42:06 dsync-local(myu...@bordo.com.au)<SJq/Iepb/WMOLAEAiJz6GQ>: >> Error: Remote command returned error 127: ssh mail.bordo.com.au doveadm >> dsync-server -umyu...@bordo.com.au -U >> Feb 28 12:42:06 dsync-local(myu...@bordo.com.au)<SJq/Iepb/WMOLAEAiJz6GQ>: >> Debug: User session is finished >> Feb 28 12:42:06 dsync-local(myu...@bordo.com.au)<SJq/Iepb/WMOLAEAiJz6GQ>: >> Debug: auth-master: conn unix:/usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb >> (uid=0): Disconnected: Connection closed (fd=9) >> >> Does this mean the remote machine can’t fine doveadm? >> >> (Both machines are running macOS) >> >> I could probably transfer the mailboxes using rsync, but I thought that >> doveadm was a better way. >> >> Thanks, >> >> James. > > Yeah, it means it can't find doveadm on the remote machine. > > Please see https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/migrating_mailboxes/ > > Aki
Thanks Aki, those instructions are great. All working now. Added the service doveadm and pw to old server and pw to new one and all works. And used tcp:oldmailserver:port instead of ‘remote:’ in command. So sudo doveadm -Dv backup -R -u myu...@bordo.com.au tcp:mail.bordo.com.au:12354 Simple! Thanks again, James.
