Scott Silva wrote:
on 3-10-2008 6:09 PM Tim Alberts spake the following:
I'm moving to IMAP and trying to understand all the details of where to save email. The system is CentOS running sendmail - procmail which delivers as:
DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/
I'm trying also to use Usermin as the webmail client. I can get mail to deliver to $HOME/Maildir/ and I can get clients (thunderbird outlook etc) to view them. However Usermin seems stuck with saving 'Drafts' 'Sent' and 'Trash' in $HOME/mail/ as mbox and Dovecot won't find them even when I use the setting:
maildir:~/Maildir:mbox:~/mail/
I don't know what exact question to ask to I'll just ask for any thoughts on this?
Second question, different topic. Are there problems with running POP3 and IMAP? I've always run POP3 and I'm thinking to move to IMAP for some clients so the Usermin webmail will be better 'synchronized' with the users inbox.
Do you have usermin set to access mail by IMAP or the default of accessing the mail directly on the filesystem?
I did have Usermin configured to read directly. I have changed this so Usermin goes through the local IMAP server (dovecot) and Usermin seems to be working much better with the mail.
However, I have a new problem...
I've changed my mail location back to mbox as follows:
mail_location: mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
This is working great with two exceptions.
First, using mozilla thunderbird as a client, I can create folders, but I can't create sub-folders. Why might this be?
Second, I have Usermin configured to save a copy of sent mail in a folder 'Sent'. mozilla thunderbird is doing this OK, but Usermin is not. It gives me the following error on the web interface:
Failed to send mail : Failed to set IMAP flags : Error in IMAP
command UID: Invalid arguments.Checking through the logs, I don't see any other errors so I'm having trouble find out why? The email does get delivered, but no copy is saved.
Current dovecont version/configuration:
*> dovecot --version * 1.0.10 *> dovecot -n * # 1.0.10: /etc/dovecot.conf protocols: imap pop3 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3 pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: passdb: driver: pam args: dovecot userdb: driver: passwd args: blocking=yes
On your second question, I run bothPOP3 and IMAP on the server. Some people with light traffic just want to get the mail to their PC, and other users want IMAP so they can work with their mail from multiple locations and computers.
That's exactly what I'm going for. Good to hear I can expect it to work fine.