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 }