that's the way I already configed it, but my running UW IMAP act as I explained: it move all incoming mail from /var/mail/[username] to ~/mbox and then the imap inbox is the ~/mbox
the move from UW to dovecot will be much more complicate if the inbox place is different.
--Yedidia
James Moser wrote:
default_mail_env = mbox:%h:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
Yedidia Klein wrote:
Is there a way to configure dovecot to work like UW imap? mean mail come to /var/mail/[username] (in mbox format) then while the user connect, the imapd move the email to ~/mbox and serve it from there.
--Yedidia
James Whatever wrote:
Hey, I am setting up Dovecot on Debian with Postfix. I am telling Dovecot to use maildir:~/Maildir but it persists in dumping mail in mbox format in /var/mail/username. Can anyone suggest ideas? My config file is attached.
That's most likely because it's your MTA that's doing your local delivery.
Check your exim/postfix/sendmail/whatever config.
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