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Introduction: I am in the last stage of migrating a very big mail account from a remote courier mail server to a new dovecot server. For this I used dsync to move the INBOX from the old server. Unfortunately there was some GUID conflict so the mail was migrated to a new mailbox (folder) called INBOX_c92f64f79f0d1ed01e6d5b314f04886c_c92f64f79f0d1ed01e6d5b314f04886c. The other mailboxes where migrated as they should. The new INBOX is empty.

Question: So, as the last step, in order to put things back in order, I want to move the mail from INBOX_c92f64f79f0d1ed01e6d5b314f04886c_c92f64f79f0d1ed01e6d5b314f04886c to INBOX

According to dovecot documentation, this should be doable with the doveadm move command, which takes as parameter a search query. Unfortunately neither of these two commands brings any results

doveadm move -u myuser INBOX mailbox INBOX_c92f64f79f0d1ed01e6d5b314f04886c_c92f64f79f0d1ed01e6d5b314f04886c ALL
doveadm -D -v search -u myuser mailbox INBOX_c92f64f79f0d1ed01e6d5b314f04886c_c92f64f79f0d1ed01e6d5b314f04886c ALL

the only relevant command that I managed to make work was:

doveadm -D -v search ALL -u myuser

could somebody please advise on that?

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Apparently there seemed to be a confusion on what exactly the name of the new folder was. So, the name of every sub-folder (mailbox) of INBOX has the prefix INBOX. This can be seen by running 

 doveadm mailbox list -u

which lists the actual names of all existing mailboxes. So the command has to be rewritten:

doveadm move -u myuser INBOX mailbox INBOX_c92f64f79f0d1ed01e6d5b314f04886c_c92f64f79f0d1ed01e6d5b314f04886c ALL
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