Switch between user and group accounts?

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Group vs (delegated) User accounts: Is it possible to switch between those two modes without export-importing emails?

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The type field on a principal (Individual vs. Group) is a fixed designator in Stalwart’s data model – the docs describe it as always being set to either "individual" or "group" and do not describe an in-place conversion between the two. There is no documented mechanism to simply flip a principal’s type from Individual to Group (or vice versa) while retaining its stored mail.

In practice the options documented are:

  • Group accounts hold mail that members access as a shared folder. Members are added to the members list of the group principal.
  • Individual accounts can have access delegated to other users through roles/permissions.

Since a type-change path is not documented, the safest approach would be to create the new principal (of the target type) and then migrate the mail. The backup/snapshot CLI tooling may help reduce the manual effort of that migration.

This isn’t covered in the current docs beyond what is described above. A community member or staff member will follow up.

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