[Dovecot] Making dovecot and postfix play together

[Channing]

Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk>:

> I am encountering 'transport problems' in postfix, and I can't tie them
> down.  I'm beginning to wonder whether I have conflicting settings in
> the various parts of the mail server.  I have been advised separately
> by a number of people, so it is entirely possible.  I am, therefore,
> attempting to check every detail of my setup.
>
> I was advised to put
> 'MAIL=/home/$USER/MailDir:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/$USER'
> into /etc/profile 'because that's the way that dovecot likes it'.  Is
> this correct?  I'm using 0.99.14 on Fedora Core 4.
>
> Dovecot does appear to be working correctly.  I can drag messages to the
> mailboxes.  The problem appears to be in postfix.  Fetchmail can
> download the messages, but they are sticking in postfix's queue.  I'm
> still working on that, but would like confirmation that I was right to
> follow the advice given above.
>
> Anne
>
Hi Anne,

I too am on FC4 (rel 2) and Dovecot 0.99.  I have the environment 
variable of MAIL set to MAIL=/var/spool/mail/$USER as is the default in 
/etc/profile (in other words, I didn't change it from the initial OS 
load).  In /etc/dovecot.conf, I have "default_mail_env = 
maildir:~/mail" where mail is actually a mail directory (the name is a 
artifact of a previous IMAP implementation).  That's it.  Postfix 2.1.5 
works with that configuration for me.

Hope this helps,
Channing

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