On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 08:15:59PM -0700, ShepN wrote:
The mail that is placed my system users mailbox by postfix is not being transmitted to my outlook client by dovecot.
My first thought was that dovecot was not looking in the place where postfix put the mail, but that seems not to be it.
dovecot is looking for the mail in "/var/mail/$USER":
[dovecot] mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
And after checking procmail's man page, OK, the default location for the mbox is /var/mail/$LOGNAME
[postfix] mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION"
Maybe the names aren't the same? It would be useful to confirm what the exact filenames are in /var/mail, and th have the log lines from postfix and dovecot when a mail is delivered by postfix and dovecot tries to read it.
By the way,
[postfix] mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 192.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128
"192.0.0.0/8" invites a LOT of problems. I suspect/hope you meant "192.168.0.0/16". The exception would be if you have a specific static public IP range attributed by your ISP and attributed to your ISP, as verified by IP WHOIS . . . and "192.0.0.0/8" is CERTAINLY not it. You should change immediately.
HTH