Johannes Berg wrote:
Michael Hipp schrieb:
Dovecot is delivering mail to my ~/.mail directory wonderfully. But /var/mail/michael is growing steadily.
Something must be delivering there. I'm sure dovecot is not delivering any mail, so it can't be delivering to ~/.mail :) Maybe you need to configure your MTA (exim,postfix,sendmail,....) to deliver to ~/.mail?
Obviously I'm confused.
I'm using postfix for mta. It has been running since the box was built.
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.
Is this not the case?
So, in normal circumstances, who is responsible for keeping /var/mail from filling up?
Sorry for all the dum-dum questions.
Thank you all, Michael