On 01/28/2005 07:02:45 AM, Rob Campbell wrote:
I was told to use dovecot because it was easier than cyrus. I just upgraded from fc1 to fc3. I am not sure what fc1 used but I think it was cyrus and it worked perfect out of the box no configurations to do. The new cyrus-imapd is not so simple so I got dovecot. I see examples saying to use mbox=~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u but when I try that I cannot map mail folders that reside under ~/mail. I have tried default_mail_env = maildir:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u which is the setup i have now. I get this error when trying to connect via evolution error while scanning folders in "IMAP server localhost" imap command failed. invalid mask.
when I use default_mail_env = maildir:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u the error i get is: This store does not support subscriptions or they are not enabled. I have an Inbox Junk and Trash folder under that account.
Well, I use dovecot-0.99.13-3.FC3 successfully on fc3 to access my mail
through IMAP, and I have:
default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
note the trailing '/' in ~/mail/ and the absence of spool in the inbox path.
Success, Willem Riede.