Linking mailboxes

[Yassine Chaouche]

Hello Kunal,

I've done this once, and it was for bakcup mail too :) in this page 
(https://ychaouche.informatick.net/dovecotsharefolders) I describe how I 
shared folders between main e-mail account and backup e-mail account 
with symlinks and dovecot-acl files pretty easily.

Yassine.

On 2/24/19 6:57 PM, Aki Tuomi via dovecot wrote:
>
>> On 24 February 2019 18:17 "Kunal A. via dovecot" 
>> <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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 
>> <http://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 at example.com <mailto:email1 at example.com>, email2 at example.com 
>> <mailto:email2 at 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 <http://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
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>
> Try setting mail_debug=yes and provide logs. This gives better insight 
> as to what happens.
>
> ---
> Aki Tuomi
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