Re: [Dovecot] Connecting to dovecot
We have home directories on the server. Virtual user's can login (at least I've been able to verify that from using telnet to port 143). Yes the earlier mail was different. I can go back to that configuration if I need to. Meanwhile I'll take a look at the link you sent. Thank you!
----- Original Message ---- From: Scott Silva ssilva@sgvwater.com To: dovecot@dovecot.org Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 3:01:51 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Connecting to dovecot
on 9-17-2008 2:43 PM Grant Lowe spake the following:
We want to have just inboxes in /var/mail/%u.
I'm not sure how well that is going to work. You might need some sort of home directory, but your earlier conf had mail location and home directory pointing to the same place. That location can't be a directory AND a file.
Do users have home directories on this server or is it all virtual?
Maybe this has more clues;
http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation
-- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!
on 9-17-2008 3:48 PM Grant Lowe spake the following:
We have home directories on the server. Virtual user's can login (at least I've been able to verify that from using telnet to port 143). Yes the earlier mail was different. I can go back to that configuration if I need to. Meanwhile I'll take a look at the link you sent. Thank you!
Then try this; mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
Make sure the home directories map properly and not to /var/mail/%u from however you auth. The above puts IMAP folders in a folder called mail in the users home directory, and the inbox in /var/mail/%u.
Dovecot will also store its indexes in the ~/mail directory, so it has to be a folder.
-- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!
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