[Dovecot] Postfix and Maildirs

Steve Sloan steve at lansol.com.au
Sun Aug 24 07:43:13 EEST 2003


Thankyou,

I had a space at the end of

default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir

If I have read the maillog file a bit more closely I should have picked that up.

Anyway thanks again

Steve


Charlie Allom wrote:

>On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 01:32:54PM +0930, Steve Sloan wrote:
>  
>
>>The problem is when Postfix delivers a message is insists on making a 
>>second Maildir directory in the user's home drive and put the message in 
>>there.
>>    
>>
>
>  
>
>>ie. this is the test user's home drive
>>
>>drwx------   10 test2    test2        4096 Aug 23 20:53 Maildir
>>drwx------    6 test2    test2        4096 Aug 24 11:05 Maildir
>>
>>    
>>
>
>You may have a space on the end, or dovecot is reading the <CR>.
>
>  
>
>>This one has no index files and looks just like a courier Maildir
>>
>>For Postfix main.cf I have set
>>home_mailbox = Maildir/
>>and
>>/etc/dovecot.conf
>>default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir
>>    
>>
>
>Put a / after the Maildir, as you have in postfix, and make sure you
>have no spaces.
>
>I could be wrong.
>
>  C.
>  
>

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