dovecot - Jul 2016 - Moving Maildir folders

Our office had a user leave.  Another user is taking over her duties and needs
reference to the
departing user's email.  I've copied that entire departed user's
Maildir structure to the current
user:

mv olduser/Maildir/.* curuser/Maildir/.olduser

I did change permission and ownership on curuser/Maildir/.olduser to be the
target user. I did
not bring over the olduser/Maildir/dovecot* files (indexes, subscriptions, etc.)
as I thought
that would be bad.

Nevertheless, the curuser cannot see this new olduser folder (which should be at
the same level
as Inbox, Junk Mail, etc.).  I did manually add olduser to the
curuser/Maildir/subscriptions
file, but still nothing. 

So, what did I do wrong and how do I fix it?

THX -- Mark

Mark Foley wrote on 16/07/2016 07:43:
> Our office had a user leave.  Another user is taking over her duties and
needs reference to the
> departing user's email.  I've copied that entire departed
user's Maildir structure to the current
> user:
>
> mv olduser/Maildir/.* curuser/Maildir/.olduser
>
> I did change permission and ownership on curuser/Maildir/.olduser to be the
target user. I did
> not bring over the olduser/Maildir/dovecot* files (indexes, subscriptions,
etc.) as I thought
> that would be bad.
Maildir has no nested folders.

If you want a subtree structure in maildir you must create each folder at the 
first level

in the new user you must have something like:

.olduser.INBOX
.olduser.Sent
.olduser.Trash
.olduser.Drafts
.olduser.whatever

Each directory with tmp, newm cur subdirs only (ad dovecot files, of course)



-- 


Ciao,
luigi

/
+--[Luigi Rosa]--
\

Understanding is a three-edged sword.
     --Kosh, "Deathwalker"

On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 08:53:27 +0200 Luigi Rosa <lists at luigirosa.com>
wrote:
>
> Mark Foley wrote on 16/07/2016 07:43:
> > Our office had a user leave.  Another user is taking over her duties
and needs reference to the
> > departing user's email.  I've copied that entire departed
user's Maildir structure to the current
> > user:
> >
> > mv olduser/Maildir/.* curuser/Maildir/.olduser
> >
> > I did change permission and ownership on curuser/Maildir/.olduser to
be the target user. I did
> > not bring over the olduser/Maildir/dovecot* files (indexes,
subscriptions, etc.) as I thought
> > that would be bad.
>
> Maildir has no nested folders.
>
> If you want a subtree structure in maildir you must create each folder at
the
> first level
>
> in the new user you must have something like:
>
> .olduser.INBOX
> .olduser.Sent
> .olduser.Trash
> .olduser.Drafts
> .olduser.whatever
>
> Each directory with tmp, newm cur subdirs only (ad dovecot files, of
course)
>
>
>
> -- 
>
>
> Ciao,
> luigi
>
> /
> +--[Luigi Rosa]--
> \
>
> Understanding is a three-edged sword.
>      --Kosh, "Deathwalker"
OK, I believe I've done as you suggested, but still nothing showing on the
target users mail
client. Here's what part of the Maildir looks like with the 1st set of
folders belonging to the
target user and those beginning with .bpatterson from the old user. Does this
look right as
you've advised? Perhaps I need to do something else?

.INBOX.Travel/
.INBOX.UPS/
.INBOX.US\ Bank/
.INBOX.United\ Health\ Care-Employee/
.INBOX.VRC/
.INBOX.Website/
.INBOX.Website.Mouse\ Pad\ Insert/
.INBOX.iLink/
.Junk\ E-mail/
.Sent\ Items/
.Templates/
.bpatterson.Deleted\ Items/
.bpatterson.Drafts/
.bpatterson.INBOX.2011\ Investment\ Confirmation\ Responses/
.bpatterson.INBOX.2011\ and\ 2012\ KCR\ Audit/
.bpatterson.INBOX.2012\ Investment\ Confirmation\ Responses/
.bpatterson.INBOX.2013\ Health\ Care\ Changes\ -\ Information/
.bpatterson.INBOX.2013\ Investment\ Confirmation\ Responses/

At the top level, the target user has (in email client):

Inbox
Drafts
Templates
Sent Items
Junk E-mail
Deleted Items

I'm expecting to see "bpatterson" appear in that list.

Thanks --Mark