On Jan 11, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Matej Golob wrote:
I have to migrate some old system to new one with installed dovecot
(It's my first time using dovecot). I have all mails inside /var/spool/mail
folder (mbox files). I can connect and receive mails via POP3, but problem
is that dovecot doesn't clear mbox file (everytime when I make send/receive in mailclient program I get all mails again).If I look into log file I see (when I do send/receive in mail client program) Jan 11 21:09:12 ns1 dovecot: POP3(matej): Disconnected: Logged out
top=0/0, retr=5/23934, del=5/5, size=23848
Do you also see any error messages? They may be in a different log
file: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging
My guess would be that there's a permission error with creating the
dotlock file. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Mbox