Hello,
I'm trying to use the virtual "All" and "Flagged" mailboxes as described in 15-mailboxes.conf.
The information here ( https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/virtual_plugin/) doesn't really touch on how to actually interact with the virtual mailboxes.
My presumption is that when I mark an email message in the Inbox as FLAGGED (and I can confirm the \Flagged flag has been set) then I should then be able to either (1) see a copy of that message in the virtual.Flagged folder, or (2) when I use an imap command to get the message nums or whatever from the virtual.Flagged folder/mailbox, it should return the message that is flagged in the inbox as a result.
Additionally, I'm presuming that for each new user that automatically gets added, I would have to create my own script that would add the dovecot-virtual file, dovecot doesn't do that on its own.
When I view the user's directory I see these folders were created:
[snippet] drwxrwx---. 5 vmail vmail 135 Jan 25 17:01 .virtual.All/ drwxrwx---. 5 vmail vmail 158 Jan 25 17:14 .virtual.Flagged/ [.virtual.Flagged]# ll total 20 drwxrwx---. 5 vmail vmail 158 Jan 25 17:14 ./ drwxrwx---. 20 vmail vmail 4096 Jan 25 17:33 ../ drwxrwx---. 2 vmail vmail 6 Jan 25 16:58 cur/ -rw-rw----. 1 vmail vmail 868 Jan 25 16:58 dovecot.index.cache -rw-rw----. 1 vmail vmail 384 Jan 25 17:01 dovecot.index.log -rw-rw----. 1 vmail vmail 51 Jan 25 17:01 dovecot-uidlist -rw-r--r--. 1 vmail vmail 8 Jan 25 17:14 dovecot-virtual -rw-rw----. 1 vmail vmail 0 Jan 25 16:58 maildirfolder drwxrwx---. 2 vmail vmail 6 Jan 25 16:58 new/ drwxrwx---. 2 vmail vmail 6 Jan 25 16:58 tmp [.virtual.Flagged]# cat dovecot-virtual * flagged
Side note: This set-up uses the php-imap library to interact with Dovecot.
Any help, or just concept of how the virtual/All virtual/Flagged directories work would be really appreciated.
CONFIGURATION:
dovecot -n # 2.3.8 (9df20d2db): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 4.18.0-348.2.1.el8_5.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS Linux release 8.5.2111 xfs # Hostname: [DOMAIN REDACTED] auth_debug = yes auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = yes first_valid_uid = 1000 lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir mail_plugins = " quota" mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace { location = virtual:/home/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir/virtual:LAYOUT=maildir++ prefix = virtual. separator = . type = private } namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Archive { auto = subscribe special_use = \Archive } mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } mailbox virtual.All { auto = create comment = All my messages special_use = \All } mailbox virtual.Flagged { auto = create comment = All my flagged messages special_use = \Flagged } prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { quota = maildir:User quota quota_grace = 10%% quota_max_mail_size = 30M quota_rule = *:storage=100M quota_rule2 = INBOX.Trash:storage=+10M quota_status_nouser = DUNNO quota_status_overquota = 552 5.2.2 Mailbox is full quota_status_success = DUNNO } protocols = imap pop3 service auth-worker { user = root } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-master { mode = 0600 user = vmail } unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0600 user = vmail } user = dovecot } service imap-login { inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } service quota-status { client_limit = 1 executable = quota-status -p postfix inet_listener { port = 12340 } } service stats { unix_listener stats-reader { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } unix_listener stats-writer { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } } ssl = required ssl_cert =