Why is dovecot using Maildir and not IMAP. Or is it using even using Maildir at all?
Currently I'm using mailman, postfix and dovecot to manage a mailing list. Mail is sent to thufir@dur.bounceme.net which the "mail server delivery agent stack provided by Ubuntu server team" of dovecot-postfix handles fine, keeping it locally, so far as it goes. The mail ends up in /home/thufir/Maildir, which the balsa mail client reads fine, as it handles Maildir fine.
However, I would like to use dovecot-imapd which is installed. However, it's not clear quite how to switch over to IMAP. I see:
root@dur:~# root@dur:~# nl /usr/share/dovecot/protocols.d/imapd.protocol 1 protocols = $protocols imap root@dur:~# root@dur:~# grep protocol /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Enable installed protocols !include_try /usr/share/dovecot/protocols.d/*.protocol root@dur:~#
which indicates to me that IMAP is configured. So, why is mail showing up using Maildir?
I'm looking at:
"Once you have chosen, amend the following line in the file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:
protocols = pop3 pop3s imap imaps"
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Dovecot
Admittedly, I've not looked too closely into Dovecot man pages as I don't want to get too deep into the weeds on that if it's not even Dovecot I need to configure. I'm assuming that it's dovecot which is using Maildir:
root@dur:/etc/postfix# root@dur:/etc/postfix# grep dovecot main.cf smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sasl_path = private/dovecot-auth mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -c /etc/dovecot/conf.d/01-mail-stack-delivery.conf -m "${EXTENSION}" root@dur:/etc/postfix#
Can I force dovecot to only ever use IMAP and never use anything else? Is it maybe postfix which is using Maildir, and this is why my mail shows up as Maildir type mail?
thanks,
Thufir
thufir@dur:~$ thufir@dur:~$ head .balsa/config -n 20
[mailbox-Inbox] Path=/var/mail/thufir Type=LibBalsaMailboxMbox Name=Inbox
[mailbox-Outbox] Path=/home/thufir/Maildir/outbox Type=LibBalsaMailboxMbox Name=Outbox
[mailbox-Sentbox] Path=/home/thufir/Maildir/sentbox Type=LibBalsaMailboxMbox Name=Sentbox
[mailbox-Draftbox] Path=/home/thufir/Maildir/draftbox Type=LibBalsaMailboxMbox Name=Draftbox thufir@dur:~$