Hi,
You should be able to configure something like this:
namespace archive {
disabled = no
hidden = no
list = yes
prefix = ARCHIVE/
location = sdbox:/archive/location/%u
}
Sami
> On 20. Oct 2021, at 16.16, Claudio Corvino <ccorv...@trustitalia.it
> <mailto:ccorv...@trustitalia.it>> wrote:
>
> Hi Marc,
>
> thanks for replying, I would like to archive e-mail older than 5 years on a
> second storage, it seems like the namespace with a new mail_location that you
> suggested could be good for me, but then I will need the auto-archiving
> script that move mails older than 5 years to the archive namespace.
>
> A question: how can I configure client like Thunderbird to access that
> archive namespace so that users can still access their old mails?
>
> Please could you give me some suggestion on how to do that?
>
> Thanks for your time!
>
> Regards
>
> On 17/10/21 12:06, Marc wrote:
>> I am not really sure what you are trying to realize with this ldap
>> modification. But afaik you have just one mail_location= configuration per
>> user and that is it. If you want to archive email on 2nd storage you can
>> either use this ALT= storage location or create a namespace, and configure
>> this namespace with a new mail_location. The latter I have done indeed as
>> archive, and after every first quarter I am running an auto-archiving script
>> that moves emails from the usual inbox and send folders to the archive
>> namespace.
>>
>>
>>
>>> I have an MTA configured with Postfix that deliver email to an IMAP/LMTP
>>> Dovecot server version 2.3.4.1 configured to bind LDAP/AD for users.
>>>
>>> I would like to configure Dovecot to create another mailbox to archive
>>> mails of users to a separated NFS mount.
>>>
>>> Here is my dovecot-ldap.conf:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> ldap_version=3
>>> auth_bind = yes
>>> dn = XXX
>>> dnpass = XXX
>>> scope = subtree
>>> user_attrs = sAMAccountName=home=/mnt/mail-storage-
>>> dev/%$,=uid=501,=gid=501
>>> pass_attrs = sAMAccountName=user
>>> user_filter = (&(objectclass=person)(samaccountname=%n))
>>> pass_filter= (&(objectclass=person)(samaccountname=%n))
>>>
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>
>>> I think I will add another conf file, let's say dovecot-ldap-
>>> archive.conf using "url" as LDAP/AD filed to distinguish from normal
>>> users:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> ldap_version=3
>>> auth_bind = yes
>>> dn = XXX
>>> dnpass = XXX
>>> scope = subtree
>>> user_attrs = url=home=/mnt/mail-storage-archive/%$,=uid=501,=gid=501
>>> pass_attrs = url=user
>>> user_filter = (&(objectclass=person)(url=%n))
>>> pass_filter= (&(objectclass=person)(url=%n))
>>>
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> I then added to "test" user a "url" filed into Active Directory named
>>> test-archive, but it's not working, when I bind Dovecot with:
>>>
>>> doveadm user test-archive
>>>
>>> I receive:
>>>
>>> field value
>>> userdb lookup: user test-archive doesn't exist
>>>
>>>
>>> With test user it works:
>>>
>>> doveadm user test
>>> field value
>>> uid 501
>>> gid 501
>>> home /mnt/mail-storage-dev/test
>>> mail maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/var/indexes/test
>>>
>>>
>>> What I'm doing wrong?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>> Claudio Corvino
>>> IT Systems Administrator
