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alex at adaptive-it

Jun 18, 2008, 7:06 AM

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How to move users Maildirs

Hello,

I have a mail server which runs Exim. The problem I have is that the users
maildir is visible inside their home directories. This is a potential
problem because it can be easily deleted my mistake.

Is the Exim MTA able to be configured so that the maildir can be hidden as
.maildir?

Thanks
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renaud at llorien

Jun 19, 2008, 1:57 AM

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Re: How to move users Maildirs [In reply to]

Hello,

keenboy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a mail server which runs Exim. The problem I have is that the users
> maildir is visible inside their home directories. This is a potential
> problem because it can be easily deleted my mistake.
>
> Is the Exim MTA able to be configured so that the maildir can be hidden as
> .maildir?
>

Of course, in your transport for maildir, you probably have something like:
maildir_home:
driver = appendfile
directory = $home/Maildir
delivery_date_add
envelope_to_add
return_path_add
maildir_format
mode = 0600
mode_fail_narrower = false

What you have to do is to change the "directory" variable to the one you
wish (i.e: directory = $home/.maildir) .

However, you will also have to move all mails to this directory
manually, and you may have to reconfigure your pop/imap/webmail services
too to reflect this change.

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hs at schlittermann

Jun 19, 2008, 2:03 AM

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Re: How to move users Maildirs [In reply to]

keenboy <alex [at] adaptive-it> (Mi 18 Jun 2008 16:06:24 CEST):
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a mail server which runs Exim. The problem I have is that the users
> maildir is visible inside their home directories. This is a potential
> problem because it can be easily deleted my mistake.
>
> Is the Exim MTA able to be configured so that the maildir can be hidden as
> .maildir?

In the exim.conf you should find a config line with the path to the
maildir of the user. Just change this line and let exim reload it's
config (mostly near the local_delivery transport).

And of course, merge the old mail dirs into the new ones. Since the file
names should be unique, it could be done after pointing exim to the new
destination.

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Viele Grüße aus Dresden
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alex at adaptive-it

Jun 19, 2008, 2:04 AM

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Re: How to move users Maildirs [In reply to]

Thanks Renaud,

This will do the trick!

Many Thanks

Renaud Allard wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> keenboy wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a mail server which runs Exim. The problem I have is that the
>> users
>> maildir is visible inside their home directories. This is a potential
>> problem because it can be easily deleted my mistake.
>>
>> Is the Exim MTA able to be configured so that the maildir can be hidden
>> as
>> .maildir?
>>
>
> Of course, in your transport for maildir, you probably have something
> like:
> maildir_home:
> driver = appendfile
> directory = $home/Maildir
> delivery_date_add
> envelope_to_add
> return_path_add
> maildir_format
> mode = 0600
> mode_fail_narrower = false
>
> What you have to do is to change the "directory" variable to the one you
> wish (i.e: directory = $home/.maildir) .
>
> However, you will also have to move all mails to this directory
> manually, and you may have to reconfigure your pop/imap/webmail services
> too to reflect this change.
>
>
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