[Dovecot] Purging /var/mail/username ?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On 23-12-2004 16:18, Michael Hipp wrote:

> I'm using postfix for mta. It has been running since the box was built.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Is this not the case?

No - ~/mail is for all mailboxes except INBOX, which is stored below
/var/mail/ .


> So, in normal circumstances, who is responsible for keeping /var/mail
> from filling up?

Your users.


 - Jonas

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