Re: [Dovecot] Moving new email from the mail spool to the inbox

Adrian Barker wrote:

Thanks for replying. We cannot easily change the way we deliver email, as we have over 30,000 users, who use a mixture of imap, pop and Unix email clients, so we have to continue to deliver email to a central mail spool. The MTA that we run is Exim, which has the flexibility to deliver into the 'Inbox', but we need to remain compatible with non-IMAP mailers.

Take a look at the convert_mail plugin option. The example is:

convert_mail = mbox:/home/%u:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u

but something similar might help. There's some discussion in the mail archives.

-- Jonathan