[Dovecot] Please help me resolve why mail isn't being delivered to virtual users

[Charles Marcus]

On 1/10/2008, Andrew Falanga (af300wsm at gmail.com) wrote:
> What I wasn't clear on was how the mail actually ended up into a 
> persons "INBOX." This process was unknown to me. It was educational 
> to me that it was sendmail that handles this.

Actually, it is the DELIVERY AGENT that is responsible for 'delivering' 
mail to the final resting place (Inbox). I have no clue about delivery 
agents with sendmail, but postfix can use a few different ones (its own 
standard LDA (Local Delivery Agent) and the VDA (Virtual...), and 
Maildrop, but I'm sure there are probably more.

> If the dovecot wiki isn't going to explain these things entirely, 
> because it's not dovecot's responsibility to do so, that's fine. 
> Shouldn't the wiki explain, however, that, "Knowledge of what mbox,
> INBOX, MAILDIR, etc., is assumed. If you don't understand these
> terms, see (some links)?"

Again, this is ridiculous. Each persons level of knowledge is different. 
The author of a wiki like you describe would have to write to the lowest 
common denominator - which means he would be authoring a dictionary and 
a thesaurus all at the same time. Don't you see how ludicrous that is?

> In our world, to know how to do something means you've got to set it 
> up. But to set it up, you've got to be familiar with it, but to be
> familiar with it, you've got to set it up.

So go for it! You have a brain. You have a library somehwere close by. 
You have bookstores. You have fingers. You have a computer. You have an 
internet connection. You have google. You have amazon. Now go forth and 
USE THEM!

:)

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Best regards,

Charles