[Dovecot] Extremely custom mailbox locations

[Justin Krejci]

I see I misunderstood the full extent of what the OP was trying to
accomplish. If the assumption of "control where these message files get
written to" is inaccurate then my idea would not apply. I was thinking it
would save on the whole symlink business if it were possible to move/copy
all of these messages into a single location. If you are making the symlinks
by hand or thru some external script you have it may be better to pool all
of these files together for cleanliness.

Am I way off base here?
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss at iki.fi] 
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 5:37 PM
To: Justin Krejci
Cc: 'Dovecot Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Extremely custom mailbox locations

Why? Nothing special. Those users would then just share the same
mailboxes.

On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 17:21 -0500, Justin Krejci wrote:
> What would happen if you specify the same mailbox location for multiple
> users?
> 
> User1 = /mailbox/user1
> User2 = /mailbox/user1
> User3 = /mailbox/user3
> User4 = /mailbox/user4
> etc
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dovecot-bounces+jkrejci=usinternet.com at dovecot.org
> [mailto:dovecot-bounces+jkrejci=usinternet.com at dovecot.org] On Behalf Of
> Timo Sirainen
> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 5:08 PM
> To: Steve Kemp
> Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Extremely custom mailbox locations
> 
> On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 20:07 +0000, Steve Kemp wrote:
> >   I suspect if I fill cur/ with symlinks to each of the individual
> >  messages things will mostly work out OK, but I wonder if that is
> >  the best solution, or if there is a slim chance that I could serve
> >  this hierarchy without the intermediate step?
> 
> The main problem I see with symlinks is that if message is deleted, it's
> only the symlink that gets deleted. Anyway I don't see other choices
> than symlinking or moving the messages.
>