On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 18:07 +0100, John O'Loughlin wrote:
Hello all
I'm new to dovecot (and imap in general!) having installed only only today. My current set up is exim as MTA with procmail delivering /var/spool/mail/%user (which gets nfs exported). We also have a pop3 server running as well. I'm moving to new machine and though I'd look at dovecot and squirrelmail.
In /etc/dovecot.conf I'm confused by the default_mail_env, what exactly are we trying to set here? We have $MAIL set already, so for example what does the line:
default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
try to set
Cheers John
Hi John,
That looks right to me, it basically means that the inbox is /var/mail/[user] and subfolders are stored in /~/mail/ I suggest something like the following for you as you are using NFS, simply because the indexes aren't very NFS safe and unique to each machine anyway:
default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/% u:INDEX=/tmp/dovecot/indexes/%u
Regards Andrew
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