Thanks for this.
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 14:05:16 +0000, "Simon Waters" simonw@zynet.net said:
On Thursday 05 Jan 2006 13:57, Wally Winchester wrote:
Hi, I use Sarge's dovecot for a pop3 mail collection server. IMAP is not used at all. It works well, but I would like to know why one of the accounts also keeps a copy of all e-mail copies in the cur/ folder?
That is "maildir" not "IMAP".
All mailboxes are maildir, but only POP3 is used to collect the mail. IMAP is not used at all, so I am confused about anything existing in the cur/ folder.
maildir is an alternative form of storing email.
At a guess(!) the file name their email would have been stored in, already existed as a directory, so dovecot is trying to "cope" with an error.
When they empty there inbox, just try renaming the whole folder, and sending them some email, if it creates an mbox you know what was wrong.
I deleted the cur/ directory, and everything under it (since cur/ holds mails already downloaded). A test mail seems to work.
I'll see if it happens again..
Alternatively convert everyone to maildir.
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