Moving Maildir folders

[Mark Foley]

Hey!! It is now showing the former users' folders at the top level of the current user.  Great!
Perhaps dovecot just needed time to "index" the new messages? Anyway, Luigi's suggestion on
moving and renaming the folders apparently worked. 

Thanks!!!! --Mark

-----Original Message-----
> Subject: Re: Moving Maildir folders
> From: Frank-Ulrich Sommer <f-u.s at gmx.net>
> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 20:41:10 +0200
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org

> How did you verify that dovecot doesn't show these folders? Couldn't this be a client problem? In Thunderbird e.g. it might be necessary to update the list of displayed folders.
>
> Am 16. Juli 2016 19:07:39 MESZ, schrieb Mark Foley <mfoley at ohprs.org>:
> >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
>
> -- 
> Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit K-9 Mail gesendet.
>