i saw that:
- Only /var/mail mboxes
With POP3 it's been traditional that users have their mails only in /var/mail directory. IMAP however supports having multiple mailboxes, so each user has to have a private directory where the mailboxes are stored. Dovecot also needs a directory for it's indexes unless you disable them completely.
I have no plans to support INBOX-only IMAP. If you only need POP3, you might then as well use another POP3 server. Dovecot isn't anything special as a POP3 server.
:o( my users dont have thier own homedirectory, only a mbox.
Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 2.9.2004, at 15:25, venne wrote:
the /var/mail/%u files exist, and I put 777 mask. but, i can't read my mails, even when i'm authentified. how to allow mbox with dovecot???
my setup doesn't make any thing
default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/%u
That doesn't work. It would expect /var/mail/user to be a directory containing mboxes. You want something like:
default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
(and if you only want INBOX, see last chapter of http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/VirtualUsers)
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