26 Jul
2004
26 Jul
'04
6:08 p.m.
On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 06:30, Sebastien wrote:
I just installed Dovecot on Debian and everyting seems to be working fine except for the fact that it can't seem to find my mails when I log in. All my mails are stored in the file ~/mail/Inbox. In the dovecot.conf file I put:
default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u and it's not working.
What is the part: mbox:~/mail/ for ?
It's the base directory where all your IMAP folders exist. Dovecot also writes it's index files under it.
and what is the part: INBOX=/var/mail/%u for ?
It's the location for INBOX mailbox - the default mailbox where new mails are sent to. In your case this would be the ~/mail/Inbox file. So you'd want:
default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=%h/mail/Inbox