Re: Moving/renaming a mailbox root

Hi, Philip.

On 2025-09-08 10:36 AM, Philip Prindeville via Info wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had a mailbox get autocreated by the delivery of a message and now that mailbox is called /var/spool/imap/uuid/?/?/<guid>. I want to rename it to be /var/spool/mail/j/user/joe (or equivalent).
> 
> What do I need to do to make this happen?

I presume you've upgraded to at least version 3.6.x at some point prior 
to this?

You're experiencing the storage changes documented here: 
https://www.cyrusimap.org/3.6/imap/download/upgrade.html#storage-changes

While there is a command (relocate_by_id) which migrates mailboxes still 
using the legacy storage method to the new style, I don't believe 
there's a command to go the other way.

I expect that after enabling legacy_maildirs, you could manually move 
the hashed directory to your desired location and then use reconstruct 
to add it back. You could try renm in a cyradm shell first; no idea if 
that would work.

Note that as of 3.12.x there's no further mention of the legacy_maildirs 
option; it may not be supported after the 3.10.x series.

-- 
Nels Lindquist
[email protected]


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