[Dovecot] Maildir structure question

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sat Feb 7 00:14:16 EET 2009


On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 21:50 +0100, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 03:15:17PM -0500, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > > There are no 'cur', 'new' and 'tmp' directories in ~/Maildir, as written 
> > > in the wiki, but instead this .INBOX directory which contains these 
> > > 'cur', 'new' and 'tmp'.
> > > 
> > > Is this expected ? Thanks.
> > 
> > No, it's not expected. And you mean Dovecot actually finds the mails
> > from the .INBOX? I don't really see how/why it would with your
> > configuration.
> 
> Yes, dovecot find the mails in INBOX from ~/Maildir/.INBOX . The deliver 
> tool also stores incoming mail in this folder.
> 
> If you want, I have strace output of a sample deliver run.

Better than strace would be to set mail_debug=yes and show the logs.

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