Sendmail 8.14.4 dovecot 2.0.9
I have sendmail working and it is sending mail to /var/mail/%u. I have dovecot working in that I can move emails into IMAP folders and I can send email through IMAP. I have set up dovecot to use mdbox based on the following: mail_location = mdbox:~/mail
However, I seem to be lacking a key piece of information.
Sendmail is sending the mail to /var/mail/%u as a mbox (single file for all emails) format.
Dovecot wants to read the mail in mdbox (Multiple messages per file, but unlike mbox multiple files per mailbox.) So the two programs are not working together.
So, I cannot get dovecot to read new emails at /var/mail/%u. So I tried changing to the following: mail_location = mdbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u However, dovecot complains that it is NOT a directory. That is because sendmail is sending as mbox format.
I have tried two lines of “mail_location” but that did not work. example mail_location = mdbox:~/mail ----> for dovecot mail_location = mbox:INBOX=/var/mail/%u -----> for sendmail
I have tried LMTP and dovecot-lda.
LMTP – I could not see any difference with this added or not.
Dovecot-lda – I have had issues getting it configured.
Thanks for any help!
Sendmail changes
FEATURE(local_procmail', /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda',/usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda -d $u') MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(LOCAL', `-f')
MAILER(procmail)dnl
Here is dovecot configuration [root@nala mail]# dovecot -n # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64 x86_64 Scientific Linux release 6.3 (Carbon) auth_mechanisms = plain login mail_gid = mail mail_location = mdbox:~/mail mail_uid = mail mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { driver = pam } plugin { mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_group_events = yes } service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0600 user = mail } } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = 192.168.1.185 127.0.0.1 ::1 port = 24 } user = mail } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } protocol lda { info_log_path = /var/log/maillog log_path = /var/log/maillog postmaster_address = postmaster@torpey.org }