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

[Magnus Holmgren]

Rob Campbell wrote:
> Well, I have been using FC1 and i just saved the info and copied it 
> over. So I saved /home and copied it over when I installed FC3 onto the 
> new machine.  I guess I was using cyrus when in FC1, I don't know I 
> didn't check it worked the way I needed so I didn't investigate.  So 
> everyone's inbox was /var/spool/mail/$USER and all their mail 'folders' 
> were in ~/mail ie. sent-messages and any other folders they would have 
> created. We all used PINE most of the time.  So I would like to keep 
> that setup.  I use sendmail.  I guess I can use 
> maildir=~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u. I will try that and see what 
> happens.  Right now I have mail in my inbox but I can't access it other 
> than from pine.
> 
Try reading the following thread I found in the archive:
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-June/003590.html

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Magnus Holmgren
holmgren at lysator.liu.se