User mail spool partitioning mystery

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 01/16/2015 04:57 PM, Patrick Goetz wrote:
> I have a couple of existing cyrus 2.3.16 installs with this partitioning
> configuration in imapd.conf:
>
>     defaultpartition: default
>     partition-default: /home/cyrus/mail
>
> I create users using cyradm:  cm user.myuser
>
> and the user mail spool folder has this heirarchy:
>
>     mail
>       |
>         a
>         |---- user
>                 |---- auser1
>                 |---- auser2
>                 |---- auser3
>                ...
>         b
>         |---- user
>                 |---- buser1
>                 |---- buser2
>                ...
>         c
>         d
>        ...
>         x
>         y
>         z
>         stage.
>
>
> I just assumed that this structure was built in to cyrus; however on my
> new 2.4.17 install the partition settings in imapd.conf are similar:
>
>     defaultpartition: default
>     partition-default: /srv/cyrus
>     unixhierarchysep: yes   <--- (now using this)
>
>
> however all newly created users (cyradm:  cm user/myuser) are dumped
> into a single folder:
>
>     cyrus
>       |
>         user
>           |---- myuser
>           |---- otheruser
>           |---- thirduser
>          ...
>
>
> I simply can't find any difference in the configuration files that
> result in this discrepancy.  Was the [a-z] partitioning in the 2.3.16
> install baked in to the Debian cyrus package I used, say in cyradm?
>

Sounds like you have hashimapspool enabled in the 2.3.16 installs.



hashimapspool: 0
             If  enabled,  the partitions will also be hashed, in 
addition to the hashing done on configuration directories.  This is 
recommended if one partition has a very bushy mailbox tree.



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