Courier IMAP Tips and Tricks

Create Courier IMAP shared folders & subfolders

• Create the Maildir that will hold the shared content maildirmake -S /etc/shared/OpenBSD
• Create the shared Maildir Folder that will hold the mails maildirmake -s write -f IPv6 /etc/shared/OpenBSD
• Change ownerships, groups and mode chown -R vmail._courier /etc/shared/OpenBSD
• Add entry into /etc/courier/maildirshared echo -e "IPv6\t/etc/shared/OpenBSD/.IPv6\n">>/etc/courier/maildirshared
• Restart ‘‘imapd’’ and ‘‘imapd-ssl’’

  /usr/local/libexec/imapd.rc restart
  /usr/local/libexec/imapd-ssl.rc restart
  

In order to create shared subfolders into an existing shared folder we use the following format using the dot ‘.’

maildirmake -s write -f IPv6.subIPv6 /etc/shared/OpenBSD

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