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    <p>Hello Kunal,</p>
    <p>I've done this once, and it was for bakcup mail too :) in this
      page (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ychaouche.informatick.net/dovecotsharefolders">https://ychaouche.informatick.net/dovecotsharefolders</a>) I
      describe how I shared folders between main e-mail account and
      backup e-mail account with symlinks and dovecot-acl files pretty
      easily. <br>
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    <p>Yassine.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/24/19 6:57 PM, Aki Tuomi via
      dovecot wrote:<br>
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        <div> On 24 February 2019 18:17 "Kunal A. via dovecot"
          <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org"><dovecot@dovecot.org></a> wrote: </div>
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                  <div> Hi, </div>
                  <div> 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. <br>
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                  <div> I am assuming this is done by creating a
                    symlink? <br>
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                  <div> Currently reading instructions on this page:- <br>
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                    href="https://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/Symlinks"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/Symlinks</a>
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                <div> At the moment I have the folder:- </div>
                <div> /var/mail/vhosts/ <a
                    href="http://example.com/email1/Maildir/.INBOX.newfolder"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">example.com/email1/Maildir/.INBOX.newfolder</a>
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                <div> Inside the folder:- </div>
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                <div> drwx------. 2 vmail vmail 4096 Feb 23 13:39 cur <br>
                  -rw-------. 1 vmail vmail  232 Feb 23 13:43
                  dovecot.index.log <br>
                  -rw-------. 1 vmail vmail   51 Feb 23 13:43
                  dovecot-uidlist <br>
                  -rw-------. 1 vmail vmail    0 Feb 23 13:39
                  maildirfolder <br>
                  drwx------. 2 vmail vmail 4096 Feb 23 13:39 new <br>
                  lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root  root    45 Feb 23 13:46 Other
                  -> /run/media/computer/Storage/Email/mail/Other <br>
                  drwx------. 2 vmail vmail 4096 Feb 23 13:39 tmp <br>
                  lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root  root     5 Feb 23 13:46 Users
                  -> Users <br>
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                <div> I am not able to access the folders in the Other
                  folder structure(inside other there are other email
                  inboxes ie( <a href="mailto:email1@example.com"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">email1@example.com</a>, <a
                    href="mailto:email2@example.com"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">email2@example.com</a>,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... <br>
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                <div> Dovecot -n output :- </div>
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                <div> # 2.3.3 (dcead646b): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf <br>
                  # OS: Linux 4.20.10-200.fc29.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora
                  release 29 (Twenty Nine) <br>
                  # Hostname: computer <br>
                  auth_mechanisms = plain login <br>
                  mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir <br>
                  mail_privileged_group = mail <br>
                  mbox_write_locks = fcntl <br>
                  namespace inbox { <br>
                    inbox = yes <br>
                    location = <br>
                    mailbox Drafts { <br>
                      special_use = \Drafts <br>
                    } <br>
                    mailbox Junk { <br>
                      special_use = \Junk <br>
                    } <br>
                    mailbox Sent { <br>
                      special_use = \Sent <br>
                    } <br>
                    mailbox "Sent Messages" { <br>
                      special_use = \Sent <br>
                    } <br>
                    mailbox Trash { <br>
                      special_use = \Trash <br>
                    } <br>
                    prefix = <br>
                  } <br>
                  passdb { <br>
                    driver = pam <br>
                  } <br>
                  passdb { <br>
                    args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext <br>
                    driver = sql <br>
                  } <br>
                  postmaster_address = postmaster at <a
                    href="http://example.com" moz-do-not-send="true">example.com</a>
                  <br>
                  protocols = imap pop3 <br>
                  service auth-worker { <br>
                    user = vmail <br>
                  } <br>
                  service auth { <br>
                    unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { <br>
                      group = postfix <br>
                      mode = 0666 <br>
                      user = postfix <br>
                    } <br>
                    unix_listener auth-userdb { <br>
                      mode = 0600 <br>
                      user = vmail <br>
                    } <br>
                    user = dovecot <br>
                  } <br>
                  service imap-login { <br>
                    inet_listener imap { <br>
                      port = 143 <br>
                    } <br>
                    inet_listener imaps { <br>
                      port = 993 <br>
                      ssl = yes <br>
                    } <br>
                  } <br>
                  service lmtp { <br>
                    unix_listener
                  /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { <br>
                      group = postfix <br>
                      mode = 0600 <br>
                      user = postfix <br>
                    } <br>
                  } <br>
                  service pop3-login { <br>
                    inet_listener pop3 { <br>
                      port = 0 <br>
                    } <br>
                    inet_listener pop3s { <br>
                      port = 995 <br>
                      ssl = yes <br>
                    } <br>
                  } <br>
                  ssl = required <br>
                  ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem <br>
                  ssl_cipher_list = PROFILE=SYSTEM <br>
                  ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it <br>
                  userdb { <br>
                    driver = passwd <br>
                  } <br>
                  userdb { <br>
                    args = uid=vmail gid=vmail
                  home=/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n <br>
                    driver = static <br>
                  } <br>
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      <div> Try setting mail_debug=yes and provide logs. This gives
        better insight as to what happens. </div>
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      <div class="io-ox-signature"> --- <br>
        Aki Tuomi </div>
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