I can't provide specific details as I'm on the road, but I successfully used
mmv utility to accomplish something similar - changed mail home from
domain/local@domain to just domain/local for about 65 users, took less than a
second once I worked out the command (it supports wildcards) . The tricky part
was changing the sql backend (was using postfixadmin) after the mmv - I ended
up just dumping the sql db, editing the file, then pausing postfix/dovecot,
performing the mmv, then restoring the db, and restarted postfix/dovecot, was
down for maybe 20 seconds or less...
On March 4, 2017 7:41:53 PM EST, Chris Stankevitz <ch...@stankevitz.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have been using this setup for years:
>
>mail_home = /var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n
>mail_location = maildir:~
>
>I have since learned that mail_home and mail_location should be
>different. I plan to use this:
>
>mail_home = /var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n
>mail_location = maildir:~/mail
>
>I would like the transition to be transparent for my email clients. I
>don't want mail/directories/sieve_scripts to disappear.
>
>1. Should I manually create the maildir:~/mail directories?
>
>2. Should I move files from /var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n into maildir:~/mail?
>
>Which files? (In other words: which files are "home directory" files
>and which files are "mail files"?)
>
>Thank you,
>
>Chris
>
>Example home directory:
>
>drwx------ .
>drwxr-xr-x ..
>drwx------ .Archives
>drwx------ .Archives.2016
>drwx------ .Archives.2017
>drwx------ .Drafts
>drwx------ .Junk
>drwx------ .Notes
>drwx------ .Sent
>drwx------ .Sent
>drwx------ .Trash
>drwx------ .work
>drwx------ .home
>drwx------ .todo
>lrwx------ .dovecot.sieve
>-rw------- .dovecot.sieve.log
>-rw------- .dovecot.sieve.log.0
>-rw------- .dovecot.svbin
>drwx------ cur
>-rw------- dovecot-keywords
>-rw------- dovecot-uidlist
>-rw------- dovecot-uidvalidity
>-r--r--r-- dovecot-uidvalidity.55411048
>-rw------- dovecot.index
>-rw------- dovecot.index.cache
>-rw------- dovecot.index.log
>-rw------- dovecot.mailbox.log
>drwx------ new
>drwx------ sieve
>-rw------- subscriptions
>drwx------ tmp
>
>$ dovecot -n
># 2.2.27 (c0f36b0): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
># Pigeonhole version 0.4.16 (fed8554)
># OS: FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p11 amd64
>lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox = yes
>mail_gid = 1002
>mail_home = /var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n
>mail_location = maildir:~
>mail_privileged_group = vpostfix
>mail_uid = 1002
>managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
>managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope
>encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric
>relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify
>environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart
>extracttext
>namespace inbox {
> inbox = yes
> location =
> mailbox Drafts {
> special_use = \Drafts
> }
> mailbox Junk {
> special_use = \Junk
> }
> mailbox Sent {
> special_use = \Sent
> }
> mailbox "Sent Messages" {
> special_use = \Sent
> }
> mailbox Trash {
> special_use = \Trash
> }
> prefix =
>}
>passdb {
> args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /usr/local/etc/dovecot/users
> driver = passwd-file
>}
>plugin {
> recipient_delimiter = -
> sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve
>}
>protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve
>recipient_delimiter = -
>service auth {
> unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
> group = postfix
> mode = 0666
> user = postfix
> }
> unix_listener auth-userdb {
> group = postfix
> mode = 0600
> user = postfix
> }
>}
>service lmtp {
> unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp {
> group = postfix
> mode = 0666
> user = postfix
> }
>}
>service managesieve-login {
> inet_listener sieve {
> port = 4190
> }
>}
>ssl_cert = xxx
>ssl_key = xxx
>userdb {
> args = username_format=%u /usr/local/etc/dovecot/users
> driver = passwd-file
>}
>protocol lmtp {
> mail_plugins = " sieve"
> postmaster_address = xxx
>}
>protocol lda {
> mail_plugins = " sieve"
>}
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