Hey Guys! Many thanks for your feedback. I have kind of gotten it to work but I just struggling to get the permissions of the folder correct. Highly appreciate if someone could help me set the correct permission settings for it . Terribly sorry for my ignorance.
My error msg is listed below : -
doveadm(vmail): Error: stat(/run/media/computer/Storage/Email/tmp) failed: Permission denied (euid=5000(vmail) egid=5000(vmail) missing +x perm: /run/media/computer, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0750) doveadm(vmail): Error: Can't open mailbox Storage/Email: stat(/run/media/computer/Storage/Email/tmp) failed: Permission denied (euid=5000(vmail) egid=5000(vmail) missing +x perm: /run/media/computer, dir owned by 0:0
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_plugins = acl mail_privileged_group = mail mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace { list = children location = maildir:/run/media/computer/Storage/Email/:CONTROL=~/Maildir/public:INDEX=~/Maildir/public prefix = Storage/Email. subscriptions = yes type = public } 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 } plugin { acl = vfile } 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 =
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 4:03 AM Yassine Chaouche via dovecot < dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
Hello Kunal,
I've done this once, and it was for bakcup mail too :) in this page ( https://ychaouche.informatick.net/dovecotsharefolders) I describe how I shared folders between main e-mail account and backup e-mail account with symlinks and dovecot-acl files pretty easily.
Yassine. On 2/24/19 6:57 PM, Aki Tuomi via dovecot wrote:
On 24 February 2019 18:17 "Kunal A. via dovecot" dovecot@dovecot.org dovecot@dovecot.org wrote:
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 =
Try setting mail_debug=yes and provide logs. This gives better insight as to what happens.
Aki Tuomi