Rob Campbell wrote:
I was told to use dovecot because it was easier than cyrus. I just upgraded from fc1 to fc3. I am not sure what fc1 used but I think it was cyrus and it worked perfect out of the box no configurations to do.
The new cyrus-imapd is not so simple so I got dovecot. I see examples saying to use mbox=~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u but when I try that I cannot map mail folders that reside under ~/mail. I have tried default_mail_env = maildir:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u which is the setup i have now. I get this error when trying to connect via evolution error while scanning folders in "IMAP server localhost" imap command failed. invalid mask.
To get this straight, what you want to do is to use the Maildir format and store the mail in ~/mail, except that incoming mail is put in /var/spool/mail/{username} by the mail delivery agent, right?
What mail transport/delivery agent are you using? I myself have simply default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%u using Exim as MTA.
-- Magnus Holmgren holmgren@lysator.liu.se