On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, J Moore wrote:
No, dovecot doesn't deliver anything. Your MTA (or LDA) configuration will determine where mail ends up. You just tell dovecot where to find the mailbox files with the default_mail_env variable (see dovecot.conf).
OK - I see that now. I kind of glossed over it when I read the file as it indicated that dovecot would try to detect this automatically.
It will, but if you set it once, you won't have to depend on other users having a maildir directory.
When you say, "[My] MTA [] will determine where the mail ends up." I assume you mean where it delivers the mail. In my case, sendmail leaves all mail in /var/mail/<username>; I believe this is "mbox format"???
Yes.
So if I understand, I need the following entry in /etc/dovecot.conf:
default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
Is that correct?
Yes, if you want everything in mbox. I think you said you'd like to use maildir for the non-inbox folders, so you'd have to add a namespace for them.
It's explained right here:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/Namespaces (1.3)
... and in the faq (wiki).