Michael Hipp wrote:
Johannes Berg wrote:
I'm using postfix for mta. It has been running since the box was built.
I use Dovecot with Postfix. Mail is delivered, for my users, to ~/.imap To do this, just put into main.cf: home_mailbox = .imap/ or, in your case: home_mailbox = mail/
note: the trailing / means it's in Maildir format. leave it off for mbox
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?
As others have mentioned, Dovecot does not deliver mail. It only gives access to mail that's been delivered. Postfix delivers the mail.
So, in normal circumstances, who is responsible for keeping /var/mail from filling up?
I believe someone else already mentioned, you can have your regular IMAP folders in ~/mail, and the INBOX in /var/mail, by setting default_mail_env in the Dovecot config: default_mail_env=mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u This is one of the example options in the default Dovecot config file.
Sorry for all the dum-dum questions.
We all had to start somewhere.
So, either 1) All mail in ~/mail: In Postfix's main.cf, add the line "home_mailbox = mail" ( or mail/ if you want Maildir, not mbox... easier imho) In Dovecot's config, set: default_mail_env=mbox:~/mail ( replace mbox with maildir for ... well, you get the idea :) 2) Inbox in /var/mail, other mail in ~/mail In Dovecot's config, set: default_mail_env=mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
Now, I believe the 1.0test series can have a mbox format inbox, and Maildir format folders... but I'm not clear on the correct setting for that.
Thank you all, Michael
-- Curtis Maloney cmaloney@cardgate.net