Transitioning away from mail_location = maildir:~

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Sat, 4 Mar 2017, Chris Stankevitz wrote:

> mail_home = /var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n
> mail_location = maildir:~/mail

the default for maildir-type would be ~/Maildir :-) that enables 
auto-detection as well.

> 1. Should I manually create the maildir:~/mail directories?
>
> 2. Should I move files from /var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n into maildir:~/mail? Which 
> files?  (In other words: which files are "home directory" files and which 
> files are "mail files"?)

> drwx------	.
> drwxr-xr-x	..
> drwx------	.Archives

any dir with dot at the beginning except . and ..

> drwx------	cur
> drwx------	new
> drwx------	tmp

these dirs hold the messages of the INBOX

> -rw-------	dovecot-keywords
> -rw-------	dovecot-uidlist
> -rw-------	dovecot-uidvalidity
> -r--r--r--	dovecot-uidvalidity.55411048
> -rw-------	dovecot.index
> -rw-------	dovecot.index.cache
> -rw-------	dovecot.index.log
> -rw-------	dovecot.mailbox.log
> -rw-------	subscriptions

make it:
dovecot.index* dovecot-uid*
You do not seem to use mailbox sharing or ACLs, those features would add 
some other entries.

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These not! They belong to Sieve in home:

> lrwx------      .dovecot.sieve
> -rw-------      .dovecot.sieve.log
> -rw-------      .dovecot.sieve.log.0
> -rw-------      .dovecot.svbin
> drwx------	sieve

Keep any directory without leading dot (except cur, new,& tmp) in home as 
well.

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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