You can give mail location and home directory from userdb or passdb. For userdb, return mail=something:~/something and for home use home=/path/to/home
For passdb, you can return userdb_mail and userdb_home Aki > On October 8, 2017 at 1:14 PM Philon <bytesp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi David, > > I somehow remember that there is a way to get the mail_location from > per-user-settings. I had this once when migrating from maildir to mdbox. > > You might want to use Google and the mailing list archives for the details > but in summary it went like this: > > - set Dovecot to grab the mail_location from user-settings (I think we used > MySQL db field - or check docs for auto:) > - have login script which converts maildir from setup A to B and update the > user setting > - kick the user once again to apply the setting (I’m not sure about this) > > This then automates the conversion process to happen on next user login. > > Be warned though that today with all the idle phones, probably many users > will re-login after you restart the server. Perhaps the scripting could > handle a timer which randomizes this a little. > > > Philon > > > > Am 07.10.2017 um 02:22 schrieb David.M.Clark <da...@davrom.com>: > > > > Hi All, > > > > Thanks to MJ for the suggestion as my only hope, and I have tested this > > with Outlook 2016 and Thunderbird today - seamless creation of folders. > > > > Now the mammoth task of converting customers with masses of mbox folders to > > MailDir format using the on-line perl script: mb2md-3.20.pl > > > > Works nicely and will be what gets us out of trouble. My only sadness is > > that Outlook then has to be 're-subscribed' to the folders again.... which > > makes sense or maybe I didn't give it long enough - its IMAP folder syncs > > are extremely slow compared to Thunderbird which I also tested in parallel. > > Thunderbird didn't need any re-sync, it just found the new subscription > > setup and was ready to go. But in all fairness, Outlook is still really > > only an Exchange compatible product for the most part. > > > > Would be great to run both mbox and MailDir at the same time so we can do > > the slow user-by-user process rather than having them all down at some > > point completely - might look at running Dovecot on a different port maybe > > with a different ".conf" but thinking this may not work anyway or cause > > issues.... back to my server tests to see :-) > > > > I use additional ports to 143 for external IMAP restrictions anyway so > > might be able to do this method somehow. > > > > Anyway, for those interested in where I got to in my testing so far... > > > > 1. Download perl script "mb2md-3.20.pl" from: > > > > http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md > > > > 2. Changed Dovecot /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf mbox entry to MailDir: > > > > #mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u > > mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir > > > > 3. Restarted Dovecot > > > > 4. su as user and in their home (/u/home/user on my setup): > > > > /u/packages/mb2md-3.20.pl -m > > > > then: > > > > mv mail mail_old > > > > then: > > > > /u/packages/mb2md-3.20.pl -s mail_old -R > > > > then: > > > > Login with Outlook and subscribe to IMAP folders again. > > > > Not a big fan of gazillions of little eml based text mail files in > > directories but hey, if it fixes our issues, maybe I need to stop > > wambulancing about it all and do as I am told :-) > > > > Hope this helps - will keep this e-mail updated on findings if anything > > else comes to light.
