[Dovecot] mbox or maildir?

[Curtis Maloney]

Brian Read wrote:
> I am using dovecot in an SMEServer (aka e-smith), and recently backed-up 
> on one system and restored on another system the imap email 
> directories.  The trouble was that dovecot "guessed" the mail type 
> wrongly, and I ended up with "empty" ~/Mail directories (did it create 
> or populate these?), and full, but ignored ~/Maildir directories for 
> every user.
> 
> Could someone point me to the chapter and verse of how (and when) 
> dovecot decides which type of mail is in use, and how you can change the 
> decision.  I tried editing /etc/dovecot.conf, but that didn't seem to 
> make any difference.

The "default_mail_env" setting will allow you to declare where to find the 
mail, and what format it's in.  This is (IMHO) much better than letting 
Dovecot "guess".

http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers

Section 2: "Mail location"

> 
> Using dovecot 0.99-10 under a Redhat 7.3 base on kernel 2.4.20-18.7
> 

0.99.10?  Ouch... you might want to see if you can find a RPM for a more 
recent version, like 0.99.14...

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Curtis Maloney