Having reinstalled CentOS 7 including e-mail server in initial software configuration it installed Postfix/Dovecot.

I've been using Sendmail for 20 years and no experience with Postfix.  Looked in Webmin -> servers -> Postfix and specified Maildir, changed the 10-mail.conf to specify

mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir

and everything's working.

Thanks for help.

On 7/13/2018 11:44 AM, Aki Tuomi wrote:

Should your INBOX path be /var/spool/mail/%u then?

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-------- Original message -------- From: John Rowan rowan@rownetco.com Date: 13/07/2018 17:44 (GMT+02:00) To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Sendmail Dovecot Trouble

I've been struggling trying to get Thunderbird to read e-mail off a CentOS 7 server.

Sendmail writes mail in /var/spool/mail

I've configured dovecot to try to read from there using Thunderbird (POP3/SMTP).

The firewall allows ports 25/110.

I verified I have mail in /var/spool/mail

but Thunderbird is unable to retrieve that mail.

I've googled sendmail / dovecot config, I've looked a the wiki but I just can't figure this out.

Please don't suggest using postfix, I just want to get sendmail / dovecot working.

[@mail conf.d]# dovecot --version 2.2.10

[root@mail conf.d]# dovecot -n # 2.2.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.10.0-327.36.3.el7.i686 i686 CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (AltArch) auth_mechanisms = plain login disable_plaintext_auth = no

mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { driver = pam } protocols = ssl_cert =

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