Moving Maildir folders

[Frank-Ulrich Sommer]

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 at ohprs.org>:
>On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 08:53:27 +0200 Luigi Rosa <lists at 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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