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On Wed, 18 Jul 2018, John Rowan wrote:

/var/mail is a symlink to /var/spool/mail

I tried both, neither works.

I just wiped out the server, reinstalled from scratch this time I selected e-mail server while selecting packages after specifying GUI-server on the CentOS install.

I had previously installed Dovecot after the initial server build.

This time Dovecot was installed and active at boot but still can't find my mail in /var/spool/mail.

Actually, I would use the LMTP service anyway,

https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2013-August/091799.html

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

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

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Aki Tuomi Dovecot oy

-------- 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 = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd }

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