You can provide those defaults with mail_uid=vmail mail_gid=vmail mail_home=/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%u mail_location=Maildir:~/maildir
global settings. And then you can remove userdb block completely. Aki > On August 30, 2016 at 7:02 PM "Scott W. Sander" <scottws...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Forgive me, I'm a novice. Consider that today I have already set up a > working postfix + Dovecot server with userdb using the static driver and > passdb using a password file (in the format <username>:{hashing > algorithm}<password hash>). The Dovecot server has several mailboxes which > are already in use today. > > I understand that I'll need to change over to using the passwd-file driver > in order to get doveadm mailbox iteration working. That said, can someone > please explain how I could migrate over from the static to passwd-file > without causing disruption to the existing mailboxes? Do I need to just > add some more information to my Dovecot password file (namely the uid, gid, > and mailbox home location)? If so, can I still use the "vmail" uid and gid > for all mailbox users that I was using with the static driver configuration? > > Sorry, when I followed the setup guide I did, I did not realize it would > prevent me from being able to use doveadm expunge -A and doveadm search -A. > > Thank you! > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 1:07 AM Stefán Tamás <ta...@numex.hu> wrote: > > > 2016. 08. 29, hétfő keltezéssel 19.40-kor Scott W. Sander ezt írta: > > > > > userdb { > > > args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n > > > driver = static > > > } > > > > Use passwd-file driver to get iteration working. The static driver is > > can not be used for iteration. > > > > > > -- > > Üdvözlettel > > > > Stefán Tamás > > --------------------------------- domain > email > web >>> siker > > Numex Informatika Kft. > > Mobil: +36 20 956 0233, Tel: +36 1 205 3915, Fax: +36 1 203 6037 > > http://numex.hu > >