On 31-08-2013 13:07, Kai Hendry wrote:
However I found /usr/share/doc/dovecot/example-config/conf.d/ a little scary, since I like to have my configs as minimalistic as possible, e.g.
I suggest you forget all the options and concentrate on the ones you intend to use. Dovecot has defaults for most options that make sense.
I was kinda hoping for a Maildir, but this doesn't work: mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
I have mail_location =maildir:/Mail/%d/%n:INDEX=/Mail/dovecot/indexes/%d/%n:CONTROL=/Mail/dovecot/control/%d/%n
and it works nicely. So why don't you try mail_location=maildir:/var/spool/mail/%u first and see how it works before moving the INBOX separately from other boxes
I do realise /var/mail/%u is a mbox, but I was wondering if there could be some clever conversion.
/var/mail/%u is a directory. It only becomes an mbox if you say so in Dovecot.
I was surprised something like INBOX=/var/mail/%u wasn't the default btw. Also surprised dovecot seems to choke on single line syntax like
passdb { driver = pam }:-)
Actually Dovecot will even auto-discover your mail in /var/mail/<username> among other locations (~Maildir, /var/mail/username, ~/mail, ~/Mail) if you leave mail_location empty.
Verified for passdb { driver = pam }. But this works: userdb { driver = sql; args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext }
This does not: userdb { driver = sql; args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext }
Not sure of the exact syntax though.
Next thing I'm confused about is the
namespace inbox {stuff. Is it really needed? I was expecting Dovecot to create the folders once I defined them, but mutt couldn't see them until I created them myself.
Never touched namespace myself, did not have to. The default works nicely. Sorry never used mutt before.
The mail server is just for myself and a few colleagues. We will probably use mutt as our MUA and Apple Mail on IOS when we are out & about. I next plan to integrate dspam, and work out how to sort mails into folders like I previously effectively had with Gmail's labels.
I was confused to which mechanism I should be using to sort mail into folders with rules. Sieve? Back to Procmail? Pigeonhole? I'm looking to avoid complexity here.
Sieve. Which is actually a two part thing: 1) the sieve filter language which you can enable on the dovecot server and manually edit each folder OR 2) the Sieve server which enables you to edit the filters from the clients (with the right plug-in/extension on the client.
On the topic of search, can I get away with not running a Solr server? Since I shudder at the thought of running Tomcat. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS
Solr is not the only option. The way I understand this is that this will heavily depend on your client, if it will make use of the Dovecot indexing, thefore speeding up operations. I use Thunderbird most of the time and I have no indexing on Dovecot. Searching is quite good.
Hope this helps. Andreas