Restore does not accept a `--delimiter` parameter about imap-backup HOT 5 CLOSED

btw I basically ended up doing exactly what's written in the howto...

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Hi @klando

You didn't include the command :) But, from the backtrace it looks like you're doing a restore.

The server you're restoring to does not use / as its "delimiter" - the separator between folder and subfolder names - it probably uses .

Unfortunately, imap-backup does not yet have an option for specifying the delimiter when running restore.

As a hacky workaround, you could use the restore command, which accepts a --destination-delimiter parameter - YMMV.

See this HOWTO.

To see which delimiter your provider uses, run the namespaces command:

imap-backup remote namespaces [email protected] -c config/my-config.json 
Name       Prefix     Delimiter
personal   ""         "."
other      (Not defined)
shared     (Not defined)

Here . is the delimiter.

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Hey @joeyates
Tks for your software, amazing.
About the restore, I didn't see a --destination-delimiter though...
As a workaround I have renamed and reorganized files here.

My use case is that I had to migrate accounts without any option to have both imap servers up at the same time, no inter-connection available.

I didn't explore all options of imap-backup but I came to the conclusion that it's not the design and it's better to mirror accounts to change delimiters and all (well let it do automatically).. So I'm arranging for a 2 steps migration via a third IMAP instead of having backup files...

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Reopening as the --delimiter flag needs to be added to restore

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The --delimiter parameter (alongside --prefix) is now available from version 14.6.0

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