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</div><h1 id="why-append-timestamp-in-maildir-path">Why append timestamp in maildir path</h1>
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<p>iRedMail will append timestamp in maildir path by default, here's why.</p>
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<p>Depends on the tools/scripts you used to create mail accounts, it's tunable
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in scripts shipped within iRedMail and iRedAdmin (file <code>settings.py</code>, variable
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<code>MAILDIR_APPEND_TIMESTAMP = True</code> or <code>False</code>).</p>
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<p>Deleting mail accounts with iRedAdmin will not remove the mailboxes on file
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system, so that you can keep user's mailbox for some time.</p>
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<p>Think about this situation:</p>
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<p>Employee Michael Jordan has email address mj@domain.ltd. Without timestamp
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in maildir path, the maildir path of his mailbox looks like
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<code>/var/vmail/vmail1/domain.ltd/mj/</code>.</p>
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</li>
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<p>Michael left company, and your company deleted his mail account. With
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iRedAdmin, it just deletes mail accounts stored in LDAP/SQL server, not delete
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his mailbox on file system (<code>var/vmail/vmail1/domain.ltd/mj</code>).</p>
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</li>
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<p>A new talent joined in, his name is Mike Jackson, and he want to use
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<code>mj@domain.ltd</code> since <code>mj@</code> is not used by others. And you created it for him.
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Without timestamp in maildir path, the maildir path of Mike's mailbox is the
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same as Michael's <code>/var/vmail/vmail1/domain.ltd/mj/</code>.</p>
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<p>iRedAdmin doesn't remove the mailboxes on file system, so Mike will see all
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emails in Michael's mailbox if Michael didn't delete them. To avoid this, we
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append a timestamp in maildir path to make sure all users will be assigned
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a unique maildir paths.</p><br /><p style="text-align: center;">If you found something wrong
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in this document, please do
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<a href="http://www.iredmail.org/contact.html">contact us</a> to fix it.</p><p style="text-align: center; color: grey;">©© Creative Commons</p></body></html> |