How to "activate" a mail directory?
Aki Tuomi
aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com
Sat Feb 5 20:22:57 UTC 2022
> On 05/02/2022 12:08 Peter Nabbefeld <peter.nabbefeld at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> as I need a mailbox locally only just for filtering, I've tried to
> manually create it (using Maildir as backend):
>
> 1. Created a folder in the appropriate location under /home/vmail with
> subfolders cur, new, tmp.
> 2. Set the same user:group as for the other folders (i.e. vmail:vmail).
> 3. Restarted Dovecot and Email-Client (Thunderbird).
>
> However, I cannot subscribe to the new folder. What am I missing here?
>
> Kind regards,
> Peter
You sure you put it in right place?
You can check the path with
doveadm mailbox path -u username MailboxName
it does not have to exist to check the path.
Aki
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