sorry if this mail is a duplicate - I am testing the new mail system!
I am having problems setting the default mail environment.#
I am using Fedora Core 2 with version dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC2
My users all have an NFS mounted home directory, and all mail is delivered to ~Mail/.mailbox it is all mbox format.
I would like to put the indexes on the local system in /var/indexes/{username}.
So I set these parameters for default_mail_env :
mbox:~/Mail/:INBOX=~/Mail/.mailbox
Which produced the error :
imap(test): stat() failed with mbox file ~/Mail/.mailbox: No such file or directory
I set the mail environment back to default, linked inbox to .mailbox in the ~/Mail directory and all worked fine.
Is there a better way to do this ?
I would like to put the indexes on the local system in /var/indexes/{username}, so I decided to set:
default_mail_env = INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n
and got this error:
imap(test): Failed to create storage with data: INDEX=/var/indexes//test dovecot: child 9142 (imap) returned error 89
I also tried :
default_mail_env = INDEX=/var/indexes/%u
And got the same error.
I guessed at permissions, so I tried changing the ownership to dovecot and then test and then root and then 777, but I still get this error.
Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong?
Many thanks,
Neil.
Neil Marjoram. Systems Manager University College London Adastral Park Campus Martlesham Heath Ipswich Suffolk IP5 3RL
01473 663711