[Dovecot] configuration query

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 12:10 +1000, Michael Mounteney wrote:
> Hello, please excuse my asking a question about simple configuration rather 
> than something about a suspected bug or other detailed enquiry.
> 
> I've set up dovecot (1.0.13, from http://www.blastwave.org) and when 
> Thunderbird connects to it, all is well and I see folders as expected.

You've probably configured a namespace prefix to it.

> When 
> MacOS X mail connects however, it sees my home directory on the dovecot 
> machine, not the mail directory.

Then you're serving home directory by default and you haven't set
namespace prefix to OSX Mail.

> This IMAP stuff is a bit involved but I thought namespaces would be the answer 
> but it seems not.  That is, I have
> 
> namespace private {
> 	location = /var/marchive/%u
> 	inbox = yes
> }
> 
> but even this still allows Mac Mail to see the home directory.  What else 
> should I do to stop dovecot serving my home directory ?  

You don't have to define any namespaces. Just make sure mail_location
points to your mail directory. If it doesn't seem to help, set
mail_debug=yes and look at the logs to see what directory Dovecot is
really looking at.
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