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mirko@mirkonet.nl wrote:
Hello,
I'm running debain on my machine with postfix, squirrelmail and dovecot installed. Everything works fine and I'm able to access my mail via squirrelmail and via Outlook with imap. However I want to create subfolders what is not possible. After reading I discovered that I use mbox and that maildir is needed in order to be able to use subfolders. I have created a Maildir folder with the maildirmake.dovecot command in my /home/mirko directory and corrected the owner. Now dovecot uses the Maildir and I can create subfolers. However my problem is that I don't receive Emails in my Inbox. Incoming mails are delivered to /var/mail/mirko, but when dovecot uses Maildir it doesn't access this. I have played with the default_mail_env settings in dovecot.conf which does influence the use of mbox or Maildir. However the problem remains: As soon as Maildir is used, the Inbox is empty and I don't receive Email.
Is there a way when Maildir is used to point dovecot to /var/mail/ for the incoming Email? Or do I something else wrong? Your help is appreciated.
Greetings, Mirko
Mirko,
I don't use Postfix, so I don't know specifically how to do this, but you'll need to tell Postfix (or more specifically whatever postfix uses for local mail delivery) to deliver to Maildir format files. Once you do this, everything should start working as you expect it to.
currently your local mail delivery agent is still configured to delivery to mbox format files and thus into /var/mail/
hope this helps
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