On 17 Aug 2015, at 19:11, Chris Laif <chris.l...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hi. > > If $otheruser shares a mailbox to $myuser, my private index is stored > in *my* Maildir, according to this template (from the dovecot docs): > > mail_location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEXPVT=%h/Maildir/shared/%%u > > If $otheruser renames the shared mailbox, all my private mail flags > (Seen) are lost because my mailclient couldn't find the private index > anymore. > > Is there any way to store the private index within the shared mailbox? > If $otheruser renames the mailbox, the index will be 'migrated' as > well. Something like this: > > /data/mails/$otheruser/Maildir/.MagicSharedFolder/shared/$myuser.dovecot.index.pvt.log > > I see no way on how to do craft a INDEXPVT for this.
If you use LAYOUT=index it'll use mailbox GUIDs instead of mailbox names in the directories. Renaming a mailbox won't affect the GUID. But you'd need to do a somewhat larger migration then. Also I'm not sure if LAYOUT=index has been tested with shared mailboxes or with Maildir.
