Create a separated mailbox for archived mails

[Marc]

I am not really sure what you are trying to realize with this ldap modification. But afaik you have just one mail_location= configuration per user and that is it. If you want to archive email on 2nd storage you can either use this ALT= storage location or create a namespace, and configure this namespace with a new mail_location. The latter I have done indeed as archive, and after every first quarter I am running an auto-archiving script that moves emails from the usual inbox and send folders to the archive namespace.



> I have an MTA configured with Postfix that deliver email to an IMAP/LMTP
> Dovecot server version 2.3.4.1 configured to bind LDAP/AD for users.
> 
> I would like to configure Dovecot to create another mailbox to archive
> mails of users to a separated NFS mount.
> 
> Here is my dovecot-ldap.conf:
> 
> [...]
> 
> ldap_version=3
> auth_bind = yes
> dn = XXX
> dnpass = XXX
> scope = subtree
> user_attrs = sAMAccountName=home=/mnt/mail-storage-
> dev/%$,=uid=501,=gid=501
> pass_attrs = sAMAccountName=user
> user_filter = (&(objectclass=person)(samaccountname=%n))
> pass_filter= (&(objectclass=person)(samaccountname=%n))
> 
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
> I think I will add another conf file, let's say dovecot-ldap-
> archive.conf using "url" as LDAP/AD filed to distinguish from normal
> users:
> 
> [...]
> 
> ldap_version=3
> auth_bind = yes
> dn = XXX
> dnpass = XXX
> scope = subtree
> user_attrs = url=home=/mnt/mail-storage-archive/%$,=uid=501,=gid=501
> pass_attrs = url=user
> user_filter = (&(objectclass=person)(url=%n))
> pass_filter= (&(objectclass=person)(url=%n))
> 
> 
> [...]
> 
> I then added to "test" user a "url" filed into Active Directory named
> test-archive, but it's not working, when I bind Dovecot with:
> 
> doveadm user test-archive
> 
> I receive:
> 
> field    value
> userdb lookup: user test-archive doesn't exist
> 
> 
> With test user it works:
> 
> doveadm user test
> field    value
> uid    501
> gid    501
> home    /mnt/mail-storage-dev/test
> mail    maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/var/indexes/test
> 
> 
> What I'm doing wrong?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> 
> --
> 
> 
> Claudio Corvino
> IT Systems Administrator