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E-Mail / Re: How to change Mailbox folder / mount point

« on: January 22, 2020, 01:12:44 PM »

Anyway i've created an symbolic link for the vmail folder and at this time i havent found any issue with the email operations.

Everything seems to be correctly created in the vmail folder and no errors are ocurring .

What exactly are the issues expected with this solution ?


Thanks

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E-Mail / Re: How to change Mailbox folder / mount point

« on: January 22, 2020, 12:16:19 PM »

Hi,

Are you using this solution?

I'm also interested in changing the mail folder to another location but like said above , future updates could mess things no?

I found a way, dont know it's exactly the same as your looking for but all the auto email creation stuff works and everything BUT if you rebuild the mail config for whatever reason you must do this again

this file also demonstrates me putting email in /home to follow the quota requirements  change as your build needs this
tested on xfs system only

edit the main dovecot file
nano /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
and make sure
mail_location = maildir:/home/%u/%d/%n
save and exit
now the wierd part

edit this one
nano /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf

and change all the /var/vmail links to the path you need mine is posted bellow

# following should all be on one line.
password_query = SELECT username as user, password, concat('/home/%d/', maildir) as userdb_home, concat('maildir:/home/%d/', maildir) as userdb_mail, 101 as userdb_uid, 12 as userdb_gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1'

# following should all be on one line
user_query = SELECT concat('/home/%d/', maildir) as home, concat('maildir:/home/%d/', maildir) as mail, 101 AS uid, 12 AS gid, CONCAT('*:messages=0:bytes=', quota) as quota_rule FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1'

iterate_query = SELECT username AS user FROM mailbox


I hope this helps it did work for me make sure to restart the dovecot service, and also move the email if needed it will not copy it