[Dovecot] IMAP storage - mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:mbox:~/mail/

[Tim Alberts]

I'm moving to IMAP and trying to understand all the details of where to 
save email.  The system is CentOS running sendmail - procmail which 
delivers as:

DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/

I'm trying also to use Usermin as the webmail client.  I can get mail to 
deliver to $HOME/Maildir/ and I can get clients (thunderbird outlook 
etc) to view them.  However Usermin seems stuck with saving 'Drafts' 
'Sent' and 'Trash' in $HOME/mail/ as mbox and Dovecot won't find them 
even when I use the setting:

maildir:~/Maildir:mbox:~/mail/

I don't know what exact question to ask to I'll just ask for any 
thoughts on this?

Second question, different topic.  Are there problems with running POP3 
and IMAP?  I've always run POP3 and I'm thinking to move to IMAP for 
some clients so the Usermin webmail will be better 'synchronized' with 
the users inbox.


*> dovecot --version *
1.0.10
*> dovecot -n *
# 1.0.10: /etc/dovecot.conf
protocols: imap pop3
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir:mbox:~/mail/
mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3
pop3_client_workarounds(default): 
pop3_client_workarounds(imap): 
pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
auth default:
  passdb:
    driver: pam
    args: dovecot
  userdb:
    driver: passwd
    args: blocking=yes