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Why append timestamp in maildir path
iRedMail will append timestamp in maildir path by default, here's why.
Depends on the tools/scripts you used to create mail accounts, it's tunable
in scripts shipped within iRedMail and iRedAdmin (file settings.py
, variable
MAILDIR_APPEND_TIMESTAMP = True
or False
).
Note: Deleting mail accounts with iRedAdmin will not remove the mailboxes on file system, so that you can keep user's mailbox for some time.
Think about this situation:
-
Employee Michael Jordan has email address mj@domain.ltd. Without timestamp in maildir path, the maildir path of his mailbox looks like
/var/vmail/vmail1/domain.ltd/mj/
. -
Michael left company, and your company deleted his mail account. With iRedAdmin, it just deletes mail accounts stored in LDAP/SQL server, not delete his mailbox on file system (
/var/vmail/vmail1/domain.ltd/mj
). -
A new talent, Mike Jackson, joined your company, and he want to use
mj@domain.ltd
sincemj@
is not used by others. And you created it for him. Without timestamp in maildir path, the maildir path of Mike's mailbox is the same as Michael's/var/vmail/vmail1/domain.ltd/mj/
. iRedAdmin doesn't remove the mailboxes on file system, so Mike will see all emails in Michael's mailbox if Michael didn't delete them. To avoid this, we append a timestamp in maildir path to make sure all users will be assigned an unique maildir paths.