23 Dec
2004
23 Dec
'04
7:33 p.m.
--On 23 December 2004 09:18 -0600 Michael Hipp <Michael@Hipp.com> wrote:
| Before I installed Dovecot, I had no ~/mail. (There's no "dot" in it as I | mistakenly indicated in my first post). My mail just accumulated in | /var/mail/michael and sat there. I activated Dovecot and ~/mail appeared | and I could get at it via IMAP. So I assumed Dovecot was reading | /var/mail/michael and "delivering" it to ~/mail.
I think you'll probably find that Dovecot is configured to read /var/mail/michael as INBOX, but any other folders you create using your IMAP client will be under ~/mail. So if you move stuff from your Inbox to other folders, and expunge, you'll be clearing stuff from /var/mail.
-- Rick Jones