hello marcus
Typically with mbox it would be set to:
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u i know, i try it too so but then i get a error to.
On this system (Redhat 9), the mails are only saved in /var/spool/mail/%u the problem is when i try it with :
a.) mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
mkdir_parents(/home/bernhard/mail) failed: Permission denied
b.) when i try it with mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u, INBOX same, and index /var/indexes all works fine except this,when somebody logs in, and the mailbox exist he gets the email (from mbox file), but when the mbox does not exist he makes a directory, instead of a file like /var/spool/mail/%u. Example:
- mbox exist = all is ok -mbox does not exist >he creates a directory with %u but then new mails for this user not gone to %user mbox file, they are gone to %u directory (in directory) and then dovecot cant get it.
i hope i now didnt top -post, ( set the text after quote) With Version 0.99, on nother dist. all works fine with same settings thx regards ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Marcus" CMarcus@Media-Brokers.com To: "Dovecot Mailing List" dovecot@dovecot.org Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 4:27 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] question mailbox format
On 5/26/2007 sc2@gmx.at wrote:
ok after playing a while now it works , but i have one problem open.. a.) now he makes for pop3 index files in /var/indexes/%u/imap/index etc... you said that is correct too if i only use pop3 ?
b.) i have as INBOX file /var/spool/mail/%u set, when somebody logs in, and the mailbox exist he gets the email (from mbox file), but when the mbox does not exist he makes a directory, instead of a file like /var/spool/mail/%u. The problem is when a new mail comes and the mbox file does not exist, the mail is saved to the directory as msg and not as mbox file any ideas?
Looks like you didn't set the mail_location properly:
From the wiki page:
You can use several variables in the mail_location setting. See Variables for a full list, but the most commonly used ones are:
* %u: Full username. * %n: User part in user@domain, same as %u if there's no domain. * %d: Domain part in user@domain, empty if there's no domain. * %h: Home directory. ~/ works also. Typically with mbox it would beset to:
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
From your dovecot -n:
mail_location: mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u
Btw im using version 1.0.0
Better late than never... ;)