[Dovecot] Purging /var/mail/username ?

[Rick Jones]

--On 23 December 2004 09:18 -0600 Michael Hipp <Michael at Hipp.com> wrote:

| Before I installed Dovecot, I had no ~/mail. (There's no "dot" in it as I
| mistakenly indicated in my first post). My mail just accumulated in
| /var/mail/michael and sat there. I activated Dovecot and ~/mail appeared
| and I could get at it via IMAP. So I assumed Dovecot was reading
| /var/mail/michael and "delivering" it to ~/mail.

I think you'll probably find that Dovecot is configured to read 
/var/mail/michael as INBOX, but any other folders you create using your 
IMAP client will be under ~/mail. So if you move stuff from your Inbox to 
other folders, and expunge, you'll be clearing stuff from /var/mail.

-- 
Rick Jones