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Group storage and vmail user options at mailserver.storage

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Create a nicer option structure that deals with the mail storage and its
owner, uid, group and gid. Also includes the directory layout as a
property of how mails are stored..
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Martin Weinelt
2026-03-20 01:49:25 +01:00
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systemctl stop dovecot.service
3. Create a backup or snapshot of your :option:`mailserver.mailDirectory`, so
3. Create a backup or snapshot of your :option:`mailserver.storage.path`, so
you can restore should anything go wrong.
4. Run the migration script and pass the required arguments to enable LDAP lookups:
The script should be run under the user who owns the :option:`mailserver.mailDirectory`.
The script should be run under the user who owns the :option:`mailserver.storage.path`.
If run as root it will automatically switch into the appropriate user by itself.
The script will not modify your data unless called with ``--execute``.
The migration script finds all Dovecot home directories in
``/var/vmail/ldap/`` (or any other :option:`mailserver.mailDirectory`),
``/var/vmail/ldap/`` (or any other :option:`mailserver.storage.path`),
for example that of bob at ``/var/vmail/ldap/bob@example.com``.
It then takes ``bob@example.com`` and queries the LDAP server for
``mail=bob@example.com`` to retrieve the UUID attribute. Finally