[Dovecot] What is your dovecot setup?

[Bill Cole]

At 2:45 AM +0100 9/17/07, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>I'd be really grateful if someone running a dovecot IMAP (or IMAPS) server
>could tell me exactly how their email folders are arranged.

Beware. You are asking to have other people tell you who you are. 
That usually does not work well.

>What is the mail_location setting in /etc/dovecot.conf ?

I have no such file.

/usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf exists (and is used by my dovecot) and it 
does not have anything set for mail_location.

Perhaps I should add that I do not use the dovecot delivery agent, as 
it seems unneeded for my environment. I have Postfix delivering to 
~/Maildir/ and dovecot finds my mail just fine.

>What are the directories (or some of them) containing mail messages?

~/Maildir/new is where Postfix delivers new messages. ~Maildir/cur is 
where dovecot moves messages that it has seen. My mail clients do all 
the work for moving some messages to subdirectories in the maildir 
tree.

http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir describes the way 
dovecot implements the Maildir++ quasi-standard.

>Does the client see an inbox folder?

Yes

>If so, what directory on the server contains these email messages?

~/Maildir/cur


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Bill Cole
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