Quoting John Peacock jpeacock@rowman.com:
dhottinger@harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote:
They are for a fact invisible. I tried to subscribe to them. They
dont show up.Then indeed you have the wrong mail_location directive in the configuration file. You should follow all of the steps listed here:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation
starting with step 5. Unless someone on the list has *exactly* the same setup as you do, I would perform those tests yourself, since anyone random user's suggestion for mail_location should be considered a WAG (wild a$$ed guess).
However, new folders can be created. Looks like dovecot created a
folder in /home/user named mail, and Maildir. mail has userfolders
in it and Maildir has their inbox. Does this sound right?
Currently my users inbox is /var/mail/spool/mail.For one thing, if your existing "user created folders" exist in the top level /home/username folder, then this is certainly wrong:
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
since that would store the user folders inside a directory called "mail" in their home directory (which is what you found, right?).
One last suggestion, make sure that you restart dovecot completely after making changes to the config file; it sounds like at somepoint you had something else in mail_location, which is why you have a Maildir.
John
-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748
Looks like dovecot is indeed looking to deep:
Apr 30 14:05:44 mail dovecot: IMAP(dhottinger): Effective uid=3548,
gid=3548, home=/home/dhottinger
Apr 30 14:05:44 mail dovecot: IMAP(dhottinger): mbox:
data=/home/dhottinger/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/dhottinger
Apr 30 14:05:44 mail dovecot: IMAP(dhottinger): mbox:
root=/home/dhottinger/mail, index=/home/dhottinger/mail,
inbox=/var/mail/dhottinger
How do I back it up to /home/dhottinger using mail_location =
mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
Or can I define /home/username?
-- Dwayne Hottinger Network Administrator Harrisonburg City Public Schools