[Dovecot] maildir and /var/spool/mail/$USER

[Magnus Holmgren]

Rob Campbell wrote:
> I was told to use dovecot because it was easier than cyrus.  I just 
> upgraded from fc1 to fc3.  I am not sure what fc1 used but I think it 
> was cyrus and it worked perfect out of the box no configurations to do.  
> The new cyrus-imapd is not so simple so I got dovecot.  I see examples 
> saying to use mbox=~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u but when I try that I 
> cannot map mail folders that reside under ~/mail.  I have tried 
> default_mail_env = maildir:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
> default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u which is the 
> setup i have now.  I get this error when trying to connect via evolution
> error while scanning folders in "IMAP server localhost" imap command 
> failed. invalid mask.
> 
To get this straight, what you want to do is to use the Maildir format 
and store the mail in ~/mail, except that incoming mail is put in 
/var/spool/mail/{username} by the mail delivery agent, right?

What mail transport/delivery agent are you using? I myself have simply 
default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%u
using Exim as MTA.

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Magnus Holmgren
holmgren at lysator.liu.se