Re: Mailbox problem on centos O/S after some "fiddling"

I do not understand why dovecot creates this folder as we ONLY ever use pop3 (currently with plain text auth but going to secure when this sorted) for mail and also why when it writes the blank folder it "owns" it with the user accessing it (also the /var/mail/new folder takes the same owner)

I think maybe those mailboxes were created because you've mapped all user home directories to the same folder (/var/mail), and thus, the first user to log in created files that subsequent users could not access.

mail_location = mbox:/var/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

See this for the POP3 scenario you want:

http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/mbox
(Section: Only /var/mail mboxes)

Don't need these

service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } }

Joseph Tam <jtam.home@gmail.com>