On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 08:06:24 +0200 Steffen Kaiser <skdove...@inf.h-brs.de> wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Jul 2018, Mark Foley wrote: > > > We had a user quit recently. Three days ago I copied his entire Maildir > > folder to another user > > to that user's Maildir/.JoesEmail. I changed ownership and made the > > permission 'chmod -R > > og-rwx .', just like all the other files/directories of the new owner. > > This didn't work to show > > the new folder. Today, in his Thunderbird client, I subscribed to the > > 'JoesEmail' folder. I > > restarted dovecot and restarted Thunderbird. > > > > In Thunderbird, the 'JoesEmail' folder now shows, but it is empty and shows > > none of the > > subordinate mail folders. I ran 'doveadm index -u newowner JoesEmail' and > > 'doveadm force-resync -u newowner JoesEmail'. This didn't help. > > > > I did this once before with a previous user who quit and only changed > > ownership, no > > subscribing, no doveadm, and that worked. > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > Your description might be interpreted one way or another, esp. "copied his > entire Maildir folder ... to that user's Maildir/.JoesEmail". > > Also, it depends on how you have configured mail_location. > > If this means that you have: > Maildir/.JoesEmail/{new,cur,tmp} > Maildir/.JoesEmail/.mailbox/{new,cur,tmp} > Maildir/.JoesEmail/.mailbox.submailbox/{new,cur,tmp} > now, that will clash with the standard Maildir format: > https://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir > > You would need to move the subfolders with a leading dot of .JoesEmail > into: > Maildir/.JoesEmail/{new,cur,tmp} > Maildir/.JoesEmail.mailbox/{new,cur,tmp} > Maildir/.JoesEmail.mailbox.submailbox/{new,cur,tmp} > > If you use :LAYOUT=fs to mail_location, .JoesEmail should spell JoesEmail > > Subscription is needed only, if the mail client "displays subscribed > folders only" or does not "display all folders". The meaning of the > setting varies from client to client. > > Another way would to keep the other account and share it via ACLs: > https://wiki2.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/Shared > > Steffen Kaiser
Steffen, thanks for your reply. I did have the copied folders as shown in your first example. I changed that to what you show as the remedy. The target user's Maildir folder now has: drwx------ 5 mpress domusers 4096 2017-06-28 20:07 .Deleted\ Messages.Junk/ drwx------ 5 mpress domusers 4096 2018-07-16 23:22 .Delta\ Dental/ drwx------ 21 mpress domusers 4096 2018-07-17 16:48 .Dennis\ Email/ drwx------ 5 mpress domusers 4096 2018-07-16 23:15 .Dennis\ Email.Deleted\ Items/ drwx------ 5 mpress domusers 4096 2018-07-16 23:15 .Dennis\ Email.Deleted\ Items.Sent/ drwx------ 5 mpress domusers 4096 2018-07-17 17:02 .Drafts/ drwx------ 5 mpress domusers 4096 2018-07-17 16:35 .ESI/ Where '.Dennis Email' is the folder for the old user. I copied the old user's 'Maildir/.Deleted Items' and 'Maildir/.Deleted Items/Sent' to the target user's 'Maildir/.Dennis Email.Deleted Items' and 'Maildir/.Deleted Items/Sent, respective. That how I understood what you advised. There are more such subfolders, but I thought I'd try this one first. However, still only the "Dennis Email" folder shows in the mail client, empty, no sub-folders even though "Deleted Items.Sent/cur" has plenty of mail files (1522). I did try running 'doveadm index -u mpress "Dennis Email"', again; and restarting dovecot and thunderbird again, but still nothing. What else can I try? THX --Mark