[Dovecot] pop3 behaviour

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Oct 27 16:29:58 EEST 2005


On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 11:52 +0200, Krzysztof Janiszewski - IT Partner
wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'v installed dovecot over um-pop3 today. Dovecot has only pop3 enabled. 
> imap will be enabled later. But there is one issue - on some accounts, after 
> receiving mail to Outlook Express, mail is not deleted from 
> /var/mail/username mbox file, and on most it is deleted. Why it works in 
> that way?

What Dovecot version? Have you explicitly set default_mail_env setting,
or are you just relying on Dovecot doing the autodetection which might
use something else than /var/mail/user for some users depending on what
they have in their home directory?
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