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Christian Schmidt Christian.Schmidt at chemie.uni-hamburg.de
Wed Jan 30 16:32:35 EET 2019


Hi,

Tamas Hegedus, 29.01.19:
> * Configuration uses mail_location = mbox:~/mails
> * setup per-user mail location and do for each user individually in a 
> serial manner:
> -- doveadm sync maildir:~/Maildir; mbox is synced to Maildir, long 
> running time
> -- doveadm sync maildir:~/Maildir; rerun to do it for new messages (fast)
> -- add USER to userdb and set extra field to maildir:~/Maildir
> users not present in the userdb should default to dovcot default; 
> conditionally optional: doveadm auth cache flush

IMHO there is no need to create or change special userdb entries. See 
https://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation:
"By default the mail_location setting is empty, which means that Dovecot 
attempts to locate automatically where your mails are."

Regards,
Christian

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