[Dovecot] Mail being delivered to mbox instead of Maildir

Sean Smitz sean.smitz at us.fujitsu.com
Thu Sep 18 04:54:42 EEST 2008


> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:41:31 -0400
> From: Charles Marcus <CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered to mbox instead of Maildir
> To: Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot at dovecot.org>
> Message-ID: <48D1333B.8060907 at Media-Brokers.com>
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> On 9/17/2008, Sean Smitz (sean.smitz at us.fujitsu.com) wrote:
>   
>> mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir
>>     
>
> Maybe it is case sensitive...
>
> Try:
>
> mail_location: Maildir:~/Maildir
>
> --
>
> Best regards,
>
> Charles
>
>
> ------------------------------
>   
I will try, but that is how the examples are capitalized.
> Message: 9
> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:25:07 +0300
> From: Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered to mbox instead of Maildir
> To: Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot at dovecot.org>
> Message-ID: <8E304E7D-48BF-405F-93C8-1374FD483E8F at iki.fi>
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> On Sep 17, 2008, at 5:22 PM, Sean Smitz wrote:
>
>   
>> I thought I had Dovecot configured to use Maildir instead of mbox,
>> but apparently it is still using mbox.
>>
>> Excerpt from dovecot.conf:
>> mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
>>
>>
>> Excerpt from sendmail.mc:
>> MAILER(dovecot)dnl
>>     
>
> You sure sendmail is really calling deliver? In that case you should
> see deliver logging "saved mail to INBOX" lines.
>
>   
Timo,
    I don't see that in the /var/log/maillog file. do I need to increase 
the default logging level?

Sep 16 15:09:00 mailserv1 sendmail[20848]: m8GJ90bl020846: SMTP outgoing 
connect on mailserv1.fla.fujitsu.com
Sep 16 15:09:06 mailserv1 sendmail[20848]: m8GJ90bl020846: 
to=<david at torrisi.org>, 
ctladdr=<mailtest at mailserv1.fla.fujitsu.com>                                            
(10295/10297), delay=00:00:06, xdelay=00:00:06, mailer=relay, 
pri=120363, relay=fujitsu1.fnanic.fujitsu.com. [192.240.0.1], 
ds                                           n=2.0.0, stat=Sent 
(m8GJ95rd028033 Message accepted for delivery)
Sep 16 15:09:06 mailserv1 sendmail[20848]: m8GJ90bl020846: done; 
delay=00:00:06, ntries=1



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