Hello,
I’m attempting to upgrade a mbox format based dovecot server to the latest 2.4.1 on Fedora release 43. I am using sendmail at the MTA. I have provided a synopsis of my 2.4.1 dovecot config below. The dovecot server I’m attempting to upgrade is running dovecot 2.3.21 on Fedora 37.
In the 2.3.21 setup all mbox based folders are at the top level in the user’s ~/mail location For example Sent, Trash, Drafts, …
In dovecot 2.4.1 this setting no longer works: "mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u”,so when a client connects to the dovecot server their sendmail based mbox /var/mail isn’t visible.
Additionally mbox folders directly under a user’s ~/mail iike Sent, Trash, Drafts are not visible either.
The new 2.4.1 dovecot server creates a folder named “inbox” under ~/mail as well as an .imap directory which contains directories that appear to correspond to the folders at the top level along with other dovecot based files.
Can you describe how I would make the seamail delivered mail in /var/spool as well as a users top level mbox folders accessible in the new dovecot mbox structures?
Thanks in advance for any help,
-Bill
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Dovecot config
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dovecot_config_version = 2.4.1
dovecot_storage_version = 2.4.1
protocols {
imap = yes
lmtp = yes
}
mail_driver = mbox
mail_home = /home/%{user}
mail_path = ~/mail
mbox_write_locks = fcntl
namespace inbox {
inbox = yes
separator = /
}
Hello,
I'm attempting to upgrade a mbox format based dovecot server to the latest
2.4.1 on Fedora release 43. I am using sendmail at the MTA. I have
provided a synopsis of my 2.4.1 dovecot config below. The dovecot server
I'm attempting to upgrade is running dovecot 2.3.21 on Fedora 37.
In the 2.3.21 setup all mbox based folders are at the top level in the
user's ~/mail location For example Sent, Trash, Drafts, ...
In dovecot 2.4.1 this setting no longer works: "mail_location =
mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u",so when a client connects to the dovecot
server their sendmail based mbox /var/mail isn't visible.
Additionally mbox folders directly under a user's ~/mail iike Sent, Trash,
Drafts are not visible either.
The new 2.4.1 dovecot server creates a folder named "inbox" under ~/mail
as well as an .imap directory which contains directories that appear to
correspond to the folders at the top level along with other dovecot based
files.
Can you describe how I would make the seamail delivered mail in /var/spool
as well as a users top level mbox folders accessible in the new dovecot
mbox structures?
Thanks in advance for any help,
-Bill
======================================
Dovecot config
======================================
dovecot_config_version = 2.4.1
dovecot_storage_version = 2.4.1
protocols {
imap = yes
lmtp = yes
}
mail_driver = mbox
mail_home = /home/%{user}
mail_path = ~/mail
mbox_write_locks = fcntl
namespace inbox {
inbox = yes
separator = /
}