I'm trying to set up dovecot and I'm running into a few problems.

I just want to use IMAP for one user, everyone else gets POP3 from the existing (working server).

$MAIL is set to /var/spool/mail/gavin_imap

In my /var/spool/mail directory I now have a problem:

-rw------- 1 gavin_im mail 1392 Oct 14 22:28 gavin_imap -rw------- 1 gavin_im popusers 0 Oct 14 21:54 gavin_imap

When I try to get my mail, I guess it's checking the wrong file as I can't download anything. I also can't delete the file (which I find confusing as I am root):

[root@chicken mail]# rm gavin_imap rm: cannot remove `gavin_imap': No such file or directory

I actually have the same problem with the dovecot log file. I have this in my config:

info_log_path = /tmp/dovecot

-rw------- 1 root root 4436 Oct 14 22:40 dovecot

[root@chicken tmp]# cat dovecot cat: dovecot: No such file or directory

I don't get any obvious errors if I telnet in:

[root@chicken tmp]# telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'.

• OK dovecot ready. 1 LOGIN gavin_imap <pass> 1 OK Logged in. 1 SELECT Inbox
• FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)
• OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted.
• 0 EXISTS
• 0 RECENT
• OK [UIDVALIDITY 1066184985] UIDs valid
• OK [UIDNEXT 1] Predicted next UID 1 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. 1 LOGOUT
• BYE Logging out 1 OK Logout completed. Connection closed by foreign host.

This is confusing the hell out of me. Is there anything obvious that I've screwed up?

Thanks! Gavin.