Hi,
You can choose what ever storage driver you want. Sdbox was there just as an
example that you can have separate storage driver from your mail_location
storage driver.
Also this way ARCHIVE shows as normal folder structure under Thunderbird as
long as your users subscribe to the folders.
Which you can also force with subscribe = auto
Sami
> On 20. Oct 2021, at 17.36, Claudio Corvino <ccorv...@trustitalia.it> wrote:
>
> Hi Sami,
>
> thanks for your answer!
>
> Why should I use sdbox?
>
> If I configure the archive location on a NFS mountpoint and I move mails
> older than 5 years to the "archive", how can I tell client like Thunderbird
> where to find archived e-mails?
>
> Thanks!
>
> On 20/10/21 15:37, Sami Ketola wrote:
>> 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
>>
