[Dovecot] Silly newbie questions...

[Michael Segel]

On Thursday 17 November 2005 14:40, Andy Cravens wrote:
> First... are you going to use maildir (each email is a separate file) or
> mbox (all mail for a particular folder is in one file)?  Sounds like you
> have postfix set up for mbox and dovecot set up for maildir.  Both
> postfix and dovecot need to be setup for the same mailbox storage
> format.  Please let us know which format you want to use.  After that
> the setup is easy.  By the way, for general email I would recommend
> maildir.  I personally only use mbox for mailing list archives.
>
> Awaiting your response...
>
> --
> Andy
>
Well thats the thing. 
I'm looking at my KDE Contact and its storing everything in my ~/Mail 
directory.

So I guess what I need to do is to reset my KDE KMail to use IMAP and also to 
make sure Postfix uses maildir.

Thx.

> Michael Segel wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm relatively new to dovecot, less than 48 hours, and I've ran in to a
> > few bugs in the installation/configuration process.
> >
> >
> >Here's my set up.
> >
> >I have my own domain. Within the domain, I have a couple of Linux boxes.
> >So I control both my primary and secondary mail servers.
> >
> >My Linux boxes are a mixture of SuSE 9.2, 9.3 and 10.0 (All based on age
> > of the hardware.)
> >
> >I'd like to use Postfix for my MTA, which I have up and running, but I'd
> > also like to add an IMAP server (hence dovecot) so I can get my mail from
> > any of my PCs and my blackberry.)
> >
> >On my main mail server, I have KDE running and it uses
> >~/Mail/inbox/(cur,new,...)
> >
> >When I tried to use KDE on my other Linux server, I got it to authenticate
> > and I could see the folders, but I couldn't see any of the mail. (Its all
> > in cur subdirectory.)
> >
> >Now I did notice that when Postfix gets a mail message, its placed
> >in /var/spool/mail/msegel which would imply its using an mbox format.
> >
> >So what am I missing?
> >
> >TIA!
> >
> >-Mike

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Michael Segel
Principal 
MSCC