[Dovecot] Silly newbie questions...

[Andy Cravens]

Just a note... when you setup dovecot and postfix make sure you don't 
forget the trailing slash when you define the mail dir.  For example, I 
store user mail in ~/mail/
The full path is /export/home/<username>/mail/

My Dovecot setup is:
default_mail_env = maildir:/export/home/%u/mail/

And my postfix setup is:
home_mailbox = mail/
I had to comment out the mail_spool_directory parameter in postfix.

I forgot a trailing slash on each of these (newbie mistake) and I wasted 
a day of troubleshooting.

--
Andy


Michael Segel wrote:

>On Thursday 17 November 2005 14:40, Andy Cravens wrote:
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>>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
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>Well thats the thing. 
>I'm looking at my KDE Contact and its storing everything in my ~/Mail 
>directory.
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>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.
>
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>>Michael Segel wrote:
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>>>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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>>>
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