[Dovecot] pop3 exim4 dovecot

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey at boosthardware.com
> wrote:

>
> On Thu, November 8, 2012 7:21 pm, Robert Schetterer wrote:
> > Am 08.11.2012 08:48, schrieb Patrick Shirkey:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have an exim4 and dovecot system. The system has multiple accounts.
> >> Exim4 is receiving emails in the /var/mail/user files and dovecot is
> >> configured to use /home/user/mail (mbox) folder.
> >>
> >> I have one account that dovecot is not processing replies/bounces/etc...
> >> The data is being written in the /var/mail/user file by exim4 but as far
> >> as dovecot is aware there is nothing in the pop3 inbox.
> >>
> >> Can anyone suggest how I can enable dovecot to know that the data is in
> >> the /var/mail/user file and deliver it to the pop3 inbox for this
> >> account?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Patrick Shirkey
> >> Boost Hardware Ltd
> >>
> >
> > show logs
> > and config like doveconf -n
> >
> >
>
> There is nothing in the  dovecot logs afaict
>
> echo "my test" | mail -s "test message" test at xxx
>
> 2012-11-08 08:34:38 1TWNZO-0000TG-8s <= root at xxx U=root P=local S=398
> 2012-11-08 08:34:38 1TWNZO-0000TG-8s => xxx <test at xxx> R=local_user
> T=mail_spool
> 2012-11-08 08:34:38 1TWNZO-0000TG-8s Completed
>
>
> exim -bt test at xxx
> R: system_aliases for xxx at localhost
> R: userforward for xxx at localhost
> R: procmail for xxx at localhost
> R: maildrop for xxx at localhost
> R: lowuid_aliases for xxx at localhost (UID 1238)
> R: local_user for xxx at localhost
> xxx at localhost
>     <-- test at xxx
>   router = local_user, transport = mail_spool
>
>
> - Here's the dovecot config:
>
> # dovecot -n
> # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.6
> log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
> protocols: pop3 pop3s
> listen: 127.0.0.1
> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
> login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login
> mail_privileged_group: mail
> mail_location: mbox:~/mail
> mail_debug: yes
> mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock
> mail_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
> mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3
> auth default:
>   debug: yes
>   passdb:
>     driver: pam
>   userdb:
>     driver: passwd
>
>
>
You are telling dovecot that mails are in mbox format (why you even use
mbox instead of Maildir++ beats me, but that's not what you asked for help
with) and are stored in /home/$user/mbox so go ahead at also tell Exim to
deliver to the same location!
If you want Exim to deliver to /var/mail/$user then change your
mail_location in dovecot.conf to point to this too.



-- 
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254733744121/+254722743223
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