[Dovecot] Adding new storage

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Wed Feb 11 17:30:29 EET 2009


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On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Romer Ventura wrote:

> So all the mail gets stored at /home/vmail/%Ud/%Ln/Maildir/  so if i add a 
> new volume to the VM lets say /dev/disk3 and mount it to /srv/vmail and then 
> change the user_attrs = 
> sAMAccountName=mail=maildir:/home/vmail/%Ud/%Ln/Maildir/ to user_attrs = 
> sAMAccountName=mail=maildir:/srv/vmail/%Ud/%Ln/Maildir/ would it work with no 
> problem..?

Yep, make sure, too, that /srv and /srv/vmail have at least x-permission 
for the UIDs you store/access the mails with.

> I would also need to move all the mailboxes already in the old 
> location...

Yep. Keep the permissions with the copy.

For convenience, I'd keep a symlink /home/vmail pointing to /srv/vmail .

Bye,

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Steffen Kaiser
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