How to import a backup of Maildir into Mailcow instance?

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨salvador@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

I have a backup of one of my email accounts in the Maildir format. I made it manually, and it’s not from a Mailcow instance.

How to import such a backup into a Mailcow? Will I also have to create a domains and mailboxes that exist in a backup in Mailcow first?

I’m aware of the 2 import/export bash scripts of Mailcow, however, can they be used in this case?

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lnxtx@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yeah, first create domains and mailboxes.

Then you can find user’s Maildirs here for example:

/var/lib/docker/volumes/mailcowdockerized_vmail-vol-1/_data/DOMAIN/USERNAME/Maildir

If you done with the restore, remember to execute:

docker exec mailcowdockerized_dovecot-mailcow_1 chown -R vmail:vmail/var/vmail docker exec mailcowdockerized_dovecot-mailcow_1 /usr/bin/doveadm quota recalc -A
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- salvador@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  But the mailboxes of MailCow are always encrypted
  
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  - lnxtx@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Ohh, I didn’t know that.
    
    But:
    
    The key pair can be found in crypt-vol-1. Please don’t forget to backup this and other volumes.[1]
    
    [1] docs.mailcow.email
    
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