On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Patrick Shirkey wrote: On Thu, November 8, 2012 7:21 pm, Robert Schetterer wrote: Am 08.11.2012 08:48, schrieb Patrick Shirkey: Hi, I have an exim4 and dovecot system. The system has multiple accounts.
Exim4 is receiving emails in the /var/mail/user files and dovecot is
configured to use /home/user/mail (mbox) folder. I have one account that dovecot is not processing replies/bounces/etc...
The data is being written in the /var/mail/user file by exim4 but as far
as dovecot is aware there is nothing in the pop3 inbox. Can anyone suggest how I can enable dovecot to know that the data is in
the /var/mail/user file and deliver it to the pop3 inbox for this
account? --
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd show logs
and config like doveconf -n There is nothing in the dovecot logs afaict echo "my test" | mail -s "test message" test@xxx 2012-11-08 08:34:38 1TWNZO-0000TG-8s <= root@xxx U=root P=local S=398
2012-11-08 08:34:38 1TWNZO-0000TG-8s => xxx test@xxx R=local_user
T=mail_spool
2012-11-08 08:34:38 1TWNZO-0000TG-8s Completed exim -bt test@xxx
R: system_aliases for xxx@localhost
R: userforward for xxx@localhost
R: procmail for xxx@localhost
R: maildrop for xxx@localhost
R: lowuid_aliases for xxx@localhost (UID 1238)
R: local_user for xxx@localhost
xxx@localhost
<-- test@xxx
router = local_user, transport = mail_spool # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.6
log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
protocols: pop3 pop3s
listen: 127.0.0.1
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login
mail_privileged_group: mail
mail_location: mbox:~/mail
mail_debug: yes
mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock
mail_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3
auth default:
debug: yes
passdb:
driver: pam
userdb:
driver: passwd You are telling dovecot that mails are in mbox format (why you even use
mbox instead of Maildir++ beats me, but that's not what you asked for help
with) and are stored in /home/$user/mbox so go ahead at also tell Exim to
deliver to the same location!
If you want Exim to deliver to /var/mail/$user then change your
mail_location in dovecot.conf to point to this too. --
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254733744121/+254722743223 I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
dovecot -n