2.1 to 2.2 server migration Qs: sanity check, config ?

[Aki Tuomi]

> On December 16, 2017 at 1:44 AM voytek at sbt.net.au wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, December 16, 2017 2:34 am, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> > Please read between the lines =)
> 
> > at least you should remove autocreate plugin.
> 
> Aki, thanks.
> 
> I forgot to write this is meant as a plain vanilla pop/imap multi
> user/multi domain server, no special requirements or deviations should be
> needed
> 
> 
> >> mail_gid = 2000 mail_location = maildir:/%Lh/Maildir/:INDEX=/%Lh/Maildir/
> >>
> >
> > The INDEX= is redundant.
> 
> so I go from
> mail_location = maildir:/%Lh/Maildir/:INDEX=/%Lh/Maildir/
> to
> mail_location = maildir:/%Lh/Maildir/
> 
> 

you could use

mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir

You can use mail_home (or home) to specify homedir, such as

/var/mail/%Ld/%Ln to get lowercase path.



> 
> 
> >> private }
> >> namespace { list = children location =
> >> maildir:/%%Lh/Maildir/:INDEX=/%%Lh/Maildir/Shared/%%u
> >>
> >
> > You should read https://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/Shared
> 
> (not sure whether I might have tried shareing my mailbox across two
> domains for myself once?...maybe that's why it's there... not sure)
> 
> so I just remove this whole block:
> 
> namespace {
>     type = shared
>     separator = /
>     prefix = Shared/%%u/
>     location = maildir:/%%Lh/Maildir/:INDEX=/%%Lh/Maildir/Shared/%%u
>     # this namespace should handle its own subscriptions or not.
>     subscriptions = yes
>     list = children
> }
> 
> thanks again, sorry for dumb questions
> 
> Voytek
>

No problem, it's better to ask than not. =)

Aki