Not quite there yet. The folders show up, but I cannot see the mail inside the folders unless (in the Thunderbird client) I uncheck the setting "Show only subscribed folders". Still, the top-level folder is shown as grayed-out/italics as well as the the sub-folder INBOX. All other sub-folder at the same level as INBOX are not grayed-out, nor are folders subordinate to INBOX:
user@mydom.org <-- topmost "real" account folder
+Inbox
Drafts
Templates
send Items
Junk E-mail
Deleted Items
+bpatterson <-- added Maildir folders from former user, grayed-out, italics
+INBOX <-- grayed out, italic
Payabled <-- not grayed
Health Care <-- not grayed
:
:
Sent <-- not grayed
Sent Items <-- not grayed
Templates <-- not grayed
Trash <-- not grayed
Mozilla has a reference to this phenomenon http://kb.mozillazine.org/Grey_italic_folders, but this seems to have to do with GMAIL accounts. Mine is a local IMAP server and the link has no apparent remedy.
Furthermore, if I attempt to delete e.g. "Trash" I get an error, presumably from Dovecot: "The current command did not succeed. The mail server for account user@mydom.org responded: [ALREADYEXISTS] Target mailbox already exists." Seem like an odd error when trying to delete.
My theory is that if I can designated these folders as 'subcribed' everything would work normally. I don't know if that's true. I've tried added these folders to the 'subscriptions' file in the user's Maildir folder, an excerpt of which:
INBOX.Directed Brokerage INBOX.Directed Brokerage.Abel Noser INBOX.Investments-Active.Kayne INBOX.Pending - Open Projects Deleted Items.Oath INBOX.Board Info.New Trustee-Oath of Office INBOX.Rule Filing-Rule Changes 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
where the 1st 7 listed are part of the user's existing list and the next ones are what I added for the former user's mail folders. This did not work.
Ideas?
--Mark
-----Original Message----- From: Mark Foley mfoley@ohprs.org Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 15:05:33 -0400 Organization: Ohio Highway Patrol Retirement System To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: Moving Maildir folders
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@gmx.net Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 20:41:10 +0200 To: dovecot@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@ohprs.org:
On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 08:53:27 +0200 Luigi Rosa lists@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
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