On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 12:10 +1000, Michael Mounteney wrote:
Hello, please excuse my asking a question about simple configuration rather than something about a suspected bug or other detailed enquiry.
I've set up dovecot (1.0.13, from http://www.blastwave.org) and when Thunderbird connects to it, all is well and I see folders as expected.
You've probably configured a namespace prefix to it.
When MacOS X mail connects however, it sees my home directory on the dovecot machine, not the mail directory.
Then you're serving home directory by default and you haven't set namespace prefix to OSX Mail.
This IMAP stuff is a bit involved but I thought namespaces would be the answer but it seems not. That is, I have
namespace private { location = /var/marchive/%u inbox = yes }
but even this still allows Mac Mail to see the home directory. What else should I do to stop dovecot serving my home directory ?
You don't have to define any namespaces. Just make sure mail_location points to your mail directory. If it doesn't seem to help, set mail_debug=yes and look at the logs to see what directory Dovecot is really looking at.