[Dovecot] Dovecot + vpopmail + shared folders

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Anyone has any ideas ?

I also realized that not only can domains be placed within another  
sub-folder if there are too many, but so can users.

For example, if a domain has 1000 users, its path might be something like:

/usr/home/vpopmail/domains/8/xyz.com/A/myuser

Therefore a static location is not feasible at all.

> I'm using dovecot 1.2.14 with vpopmail.
>
> I've enabled shared folders and the default setup was not working.  
> The default setup being this line:
>
> location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u
>
> Going through the Archives I saw a message from Timo that said to  
> apply a patch and use this line instead:
>
>
> location =  
> maildir:/usr/home/vpopmail/domains/%d/%%n/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u
>
> It seems like the patch is already existing in version 1.2.14 and  
> that line works well for shared folders for domains directly under  
> /usr/home/vpopmail/domains.
>
> However, with vpopmail after a certain number of domains, it starts  
> putting them in /usr/home/vpopmail/domains/A, ..domains/B, etc.
>
> Shared folders do not work for those domains since my location line  
> is forcing it to look directly in /usr/home/vpopmail/domains/xyz.com  
> instead of /usr/home/vpopmail/domains/A/xyz.com
>
> Any workaround this ? How come we can't use %h or ~/ directly ?
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