Since I am using dovecot I do not have courier installed, but Courier had a very handy tool for making maildir folders called maildirmake which I used in some automated backup scripts. How do I duplicate maildirmake in dovecot?

for example:

#!/bin/bash

v1.2a Testing for new dovecot install

Archive mail from folders without [0-9]{4} Maildirs

after they are 21 days old to a yearly folder

MDIR="$HOME/Maildir" MDM="/usr/local/bin/maildirmake" YEAR=/usr/local/bin/gdate -d "last month" '+%Y' echo "The Year is $YEAR..."

OIFS=$IFS IFS=" "

for I in find $MDIR -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d| egrep -v "[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]"; do MYDIR="${I}" TBASE=basename $MYDIR

if [ ! $TBASE == "Maildir" ]; then

TDIR=`dirname $MYDIR`
TARGET="${TDIR}/.zz${TBASE}.${YEAR}"
# echo "$MYDIR $TARGET"
if [ -d "$MYDIR/cur" ]; then
  echo -n "Processing ${MYDIR} => ${TARGET}..."
  if [ ! -d "${TARGET}" ]; then
    echo ""
    echo -n "WARNING ${TARGET} does not exist. invoking $MDM ${TARGET}..."
    $MDM "${TARGET}"
  fi
  if [ -d "${TARGET}" ]; then
    # echo "$TARGET does exist, moving files"
    find ${MYDIR}/cur -type f -ctime +21 -exec mv {} ${TARGET}/cur/ \;
    echo "done."
  else
    echo "$TARGET does not exist"
  fi
fi

# fi done

IFS=$OIFS

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