Patrick Galbraith wrote: ...snip...
Alan,
Thanks for the info! So, what I changed was I changed 'MAILDIR=/home/ patg/mail' to 'MAILDIR=/home/patg/mail/', and then took out the '~/ mail' in the preferences for that account, and the boxes showed up!
Now, about MAILDIR, will this change the messages to be separate files? What about the actual INBOX? I use " default_mail_env =
mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u" in dovecot.conf. Is this correct?regards,
Patrick
Patrick,
if you're switching from mbox to maildir, you may want to look for a script called mb2md, it should convert your mbox file(s) to maildir format.
also, if you change to maildir format with delivery (via procmail) then you'll need to change your dovecot.conf *default_mail_env* from mbox:~/mail: to maildir:~/mail/
be sure to check the documentation for specifics... i'm going off of memory and it's been awhile since i've tweaked my settings.
if you're not entirely familiar/comfortable with the switching to maildir, you may want to stay with mbox while making sure you can access your folders/etc first, and then once you're comfortable with how/why that works, you can move on to switching to maildir format.
alan