On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 08:06:24 +0200 Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at
inf.h-brs.de> wrote:>
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2018, Mark Foley wrote:
>
> > We had a user quit recently. Three days ago I copied his entire
Maildir folder to another user
> > to that user's Maildir/.JoesEmail. I changed ownership and made
the permission 'chmod -R
> > og-rwx .', just like all the other files/directories of the new
owner. This didn't work to show
> > the new folder. Today, in his Thunderbird client, I subscribed to the
'JoesEmail' folder. I
> > restarted dovecot and restarted Thunderbird.
> >
> > In Thunderbird, the 'JoesEmail' folder now shows, but it is
empty and shows none of the
> > subordinate mail folders. I ran 'doveadm index -u newowner
JoesEmail' and
> > 'doveadm force-resync -u newowner JoesEmail'. This didn't
help.
> >
> > I did this once before with a previous user who quit and only changed
ownership, no
> > subscribing, no doveadm, and that worked.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
>
> Your description might be interpreted one way or another, esp. "copied
his
> entire Maildir folder ... to that user's Maildir/.JoesEmail".
>
> Also, it depends on how you have configured mail_location.
>
> If this means that you have:
> Maildir/.JoesEmail/{new,cur,tmp}
> Maildir/.JoesEmail/.mailbox/{new,cur,tmp}
> Maildir/.JoesEmail/.mailbox.submailbox/{new,cur,tmp}
> now, that will clash with the standard Maildir format:
> https://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir
>
> You would need to move the subfolders with a leading dot of .JoesEmail
> into:
> Maildir/.JoesEmail/{new,cur,tmp}
> Maildir/.JoesEmail.mailbox/{new,cur,tmp}
> Maildir/.JoesEmail.mailbox.submailbox/{new,cur,tmp}
>
> If you use :LAYOUT=fs to mail_location, .JoesEmail should spell JoesEmail
>
> Subscription is needed only, if the mail client "displays subscribed
> folders only" or does not "display all folders". The meaning
of the
> setting varies from client to client.
>
> Another way would to keep the other account and share it via ACLs:
> https://wiki2.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/Shared
>
> Steffen Kaiser
Steffen, thanks for your reply. I did have the copied folders as shown in your
first example. I
changed that to what you show as the remedy. The target user's Maildir
folder now has:
drwx------ 5 mpress domusers 4096 2017-06-28 20:07 .Deleted\ Messages.Junk/
drwx------ 5 mpress domusers 4096 2018-07-16 23:22 .Delta\ Dental/
drwx------ 21 mpress domusers 4096 2018-07-17 16:48 .Dennis\ Email/
drwx------ 5 mpress domusers 4096 2018-07-16 23:15 .Dennis\ Email.Deleted\
Items/
drwx------ 5 mpress domusers 4096 2018-07-16 23:15 .Dennis\ Email.Deleted\
Items.Sent/
drwx------ 5 mpress domusers 4096 2018-07-17 17:02 .Drafts/
drwx------ 5 mpress domusers 4096 2018-07-17 16:35 .ESI/
Where '.Dennis Email' is the folder for the old user. I copied the old
user's 'Maildir/.Deleted Items'
and 'Maildir/.Deleted Items/Sent' to the target user's
'Maildir/.Dennis Email.Deleted Items'
and 'Maildir/.Deleted Items/Sent, respective. That how I understood what you
advised. There are
more such subfolders, but I thought I'd try this one first.
However, still only the "Dennis Email" folder shows in the mail
client, empty, no sub-folders
even though "Deleted Items.Sent/cur" has plenty of mail files (1522).
I did try running 'doveadm index -u mpress "Dennis Email"',
again; and restarting dovecot and
thunderbird again, but still nothing.
What else can I try?
THX --Mark