[Dovecot] Purging /var/mail/username ?

[Johannes Berg]

Michael Hipp schrieb:

> Dovecot is delivering mail to my ~/.mail directory wonderfully. But 
> /var/mail/michael is growing steadily.

Something must be delivering there. I'm sure dovecot is not delivering 
any mail, so it can't be delivering to ~/.mail :)
Maybe you need to configure your MTA (exim,postfix,sendmail,....) to 
deliver to ~/.mail?

> Is it the job of Dovecot to purge this file regularly? Is there a 
> setting somewhere for this?

No. You can, however, make dovecot read /var/mail/michael as INBOX and 
put the other folders in ~/.mail, but personally I recommend against 
this and suggest changing the delivery agent (MTA, see above; or maybe 
maildrop, procmail, ...) to deliver to ~/.mail instead.

johannes