[Dovecot] Can't create subfolders of my INBOX or delete folders with IMAP

Magnus Holmgren holmgren at lysator.liu.se
Fri Mar 4 02:22:53 EET 2005


Curtis Maloney wrote:
> Matthew Exon wrote:
> 
>> 2) What's going to happen to /var/spool/mail?  That looks like a mbox
>> thing.  I'd much rather have all my mail in one place, rather than in
>> two places like now.
> 
> In my case, I've told Postfix to deliver mail in Maildir format into
> '.imap' in the user's home dir.  So, /var/spool/mail goes unused for me.
> 
By the way, the standard (FHS) location for mailboxes is /var/mail
nowadays. So /var/spool/mail should go unused for everybody (unless, as
is common, it's a symlink to /var/mail).

(http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARMAILUSERMAILBOXFILES)

-- 
Magnus Holmgren



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