On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 21:30, Robert McLay wrote:
What I would like is that mail is delivered by fetch mail to /var/spool/mail/mclay (that me) then have dovecot find it. I'm sure that I have not set the dovecot.conf file correctly. The documentation is unclear as to what "mbox" is and "INBOX" is.
mbox and maildir are mail file formats, INBOX is the location of the mailbox which receives new incoming mail.
I have tried having default_mail_env unset and with the following:
default_mail_env = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u:INBOX=:/home/%u/Maildir
You can't mix mbox and maildir currently, so /home/%u/Maildir wouldn't work. You probably want:
default_mail_env = mbox:/home/%u/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
A00003 NO Internal error [2004-04-26 12:56:03]
Log file tells the real reason. Hmm. This gets asked so often that I think I'll change the error message to "Internal error, see log file".
It's probably anyway because your default_mail_env was broken. If it still doesn't work, see http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/VarMailDotLock