[Dovecot] Mail always is delivered to /var/mail/
Hey, I am setting up Dovecot on Debian with Postfix. I am telling Dovecot to use maildir:~/Maildir but it persists in dumping mail in mbox format in /var/mail/username. Can anyone suggest ideas? My config file is attached.
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Kevin
Hey, I am setting up Dovecot on Debian with Postfix. I am telling Dovecot to use maildir:~/Maildir but it persists in dumping mail in mbox format in /var/mail/username. Can anyone suggest ideas? My config file is attached.
That's most likely because it's your MTA that's doing your local delivery.
Check your exim/postfix/sendmail/whatever config.
James Whatever My niece called me "Uncle Robot" on the weekend! Giant Robot Ltd, http://www.giantrobot.co.nz/
Is there a way to configure dovecot to work like UW imap? mean mail come to /var/mail/[username] (in mbox format) then while the user connect, the imapd move the email to ~/mbox and serve it from there.
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James Whatever wrote:
Hey, I am setting up Dovecot on Debian with Postfix. I am telling Dovecot to use maildir:~/Maildir but it persists in dumping mail in mbox format in /var/mail/username. Can anyone suggest ideas? My config file is attached.
That's most likely because it's your MTA that's doing your local delivery.
Check your exim/postfix/sendmail/whatever config.
James Whatever My niece called me "Uncle Robot" on the weekend! Giant Robot Ltd, http://www.giantrobot.co.nz/
default_mail_env = mbox:%h:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
Yedidia Klein wrote:
Is there a way to configure dovecot to work like UW imap? mean mail come to /var/mail/[username] (in mbox format) then while the user connect, the imapd move the email to ~/mbox and serve it from there.
--Yedidia
James Whatever wrote:
Hey, I am setting up Dovecot on Debian with Postfix. I am telling Dovecot to use maildir:~/Maildir but it persists in dumping mail in mbox format in /var/mail/username. Can anyone suggest ideas? My config file is attached.
That's most likely because it's your MTA that's doing your local delivery.
Check your exim/postfix/sendmail/whatever config.
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that's the way I already configed it, but my running UW IMAP act as I explained: it move all incoming mail from /var/mail/[username] to ~/mbox and then the imap inbox is the ~/mbox
the move from UW to dovecot will be much more complicate if the inbox place is different.
--Yedidia
James Moser wrote:
default_mail_env = mbox:%h:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
Yedidia Klein wrote:
Is there a way to configure dovecot to work like UW imap? mean mail come to /var/mail/[username] (in mbox format) then while the user connect, the imapd move the email to ~/mbox and serve it from there.
--Yedidia
James Whatever wrote:
Hey, I am setting up Dovecot on Debian with Postfix. I am telling Dovecot to use maildir:~/Maildir but it persists in dumping mail in mbox format in /var/mail/username. Can anyone suggest ideas? My config file is attached.
That's most likely because it's your MTA that's doing your local delivery.
Check your exim/postfix/sendmail/whatever config.
James Whatever My niece called me "Uncle Robot" on the weekend! Giant Robot Ltd, http://www.giantrobot.co.nz/
On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 15:07 +1200, James Whatever wrote:
Hey, I am setting up Dovecot on Debian with Postfix. I am telling Dovecot to use maildir:~/Maildir but it persists in dumping mail in mbox format in /var/mail/username. Can anyone suggest ideas? My config file is attached.
That's most likely because it's your MTA that's doing your local delivery.
My Postfix file is fixed. I am not seeing any references to /var/mail, could you take a look through and see if I'm missing anything? Thanks! Kevin
On Fri, 07 May 2004 10:45:09 -0400 Kevin Breit mrproper@ximian.com wrote:
On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 15:07 +1200, James Whatever wrote:
Hey, I am setting up Dovecot on Debian with Postfix. I am telling Dovecot to use maildir:~/Maildir but it persists in dumping mail in mbox format in /var/mail/username. Can anyone suggest ideas? My config file is attached.
That's most likely because it's your MTA that's doing your local delivery.
My Postfix file is fixed. I am not seeing any references to /var/mail,
Add
home_mailbox = Maildir/
to main.cf.
Or change the defaults for mail location in /etc/login.defs.
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