as you can see in the config the dir structure on the drive is /var/mail/folders/user and not /var/mail/user as I have below. Sorry. Also all permissions are set with user as owner and mail as group with rw permissions.

Thanks, Geoff

-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces+geoffpowell=bellsouth.net@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces+geoffpowell=bellsouth.net@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Geoff Powell Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 3:51 PM To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] Dovecot setup

Hello,

I am trying to set up dovecot for IMAP where I have a few maildirs. I'm using version 1.0.10.

Basically one for each email account I have (3 at the moment). Call them account1, account2, and account3.

I have the basic maildir location as /var/mail/user/ and I set up .Account1 .Account2 and .Account3 under my user.

So it looks like this.

/var/mail/user/new/ /var/mail/user/cur/ /var/mail/user/dovecot files /var/mail/user/.Account1 /var/mail/user/.Account1/new/ /var/mail/user/.Account1/cur/ /var/mail/user/.Account1/dovecot files /var/mail/user/.Account2 /var/mail/user/.Account2/new/ /var/mail/user/.Account2/cur/ /var/mail/user/.Account2/dovecot files /var/mail/user/.Account3 /var/mail/user/.Account3/new/ /var/mail/user/.Account3/cur/ /var/mail/user/.Account3/dovecot files

The mail gets delivered fine with fetchmail/procmail in maildir format under .Account1 2 or 3 but I can't get dovecot to index it (ie move it to new so that it shows up on the client - outlook). My config looks like the following:

# 1.0.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S

protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s

login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login

login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login

login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login

login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login

mail_privileged_group: mail

mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/folders/%u

mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap

mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap

mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3

mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap

mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap

mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3

pop3_uidl_format(default):

pop3_uidl_format(imap):

pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv

auth default:

passdb:

driver: pam

userdb:

driver: passwd

Any help would be appreciated. TIA,

Geoff