Hi,

I am new to Dovecot and I am trying to link an email account folder to another Maildir(its a backup of the older email). I want the email account to be able to access the older emails.

I am assuming this is done by creating a symlink?

Currently reading instructions on this page:-

https://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/Symlinks

At the moment I have the folder:-

/var/mail/vhosts/ example.com/email1/Maildir/.INBOX.newfolder

Inside the folder:-

drwx------. 2 vmail vmail 4096 Feb 23 13:39 cur
-rw-------. 1 vmail vmail 232 Feb 23 13:43 dovecot.index.log
-rw-------. 1 vmail vmail   51 Feb 23 13:43 dovecot-uidlist
-rw-------. 1 vmail vmail    0 Feb 23 13:39 maildirfolder
drwx------. 2 vmail vmail 4096 Feb 23 13:39 new
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root    45 Feb 23 13:46 Other -> /run/media/computer/Storage/Email/mail/Other
drwx------. 2 vmail vmail 4096 Feb 23 13:39 tmp
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root     5 Feb 23 13:46 Users -> Users

I am not able to access the folders in the Other folder structure(inside other there are other email inboxes ie( email1@example.com, email2@example.com,etc.). I want to get access to all the email subfolders. Could someone here advise how to do this or point me to some tutorials for this. Sincere apologies for this and many thanks in advance for helping...

Dovecot -n output :-

# 2.3.3 (dcead646b): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 4.20.10-200.fc29.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 29 (Twenty Nine)
# Hostname: computer
auth_mechanisms = plain login
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
mail_privileged_group = mail
mbox_write_locks = fcntl
namespace inbox {
inbox = yes
location =
mailbox Drafts {
    special_use = \Drafts
}
mailbox Junk {
    special_use = \Junk
}
mailbox Sent {
    special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox "Sent Messages" {
    special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox Trash {
    special_use = \Trash
}
prefix =
}
passdb {
driver = pam
}
passdb {
args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
driver = sql
}
postmaster_address = postmaster at example.com
protocols = imap pop3
service auth-worker {
user = vmail
}
service auth {
unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
    group = postfix
    mode = 0666
    user = postfix
}
unix_listener auth-userdb {
    mode = 0600
    user = vmail
}
user = dovecot
}
service imap-login {
inet_listener imap {
    port = 143
}
inet_listener imaps {
    port = 993
    ssl = yes
}
}
service lmtp {
unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp {
    group = postfix
    mode = 0600
    user = postfix
}
}
service pop3-login {
inet_listener pop3 {
    port = 0
}
inet_listener pop3s {
    port = 995
    ssl = yes
}
}
ssl = required
ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
ssl_cipher_list = PROFILE=SYSTEM
ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it
userdb {
driver = passwd
}
userdb {
args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n
driver = static
}