I have a new CentOS 6 server running Dovecot 2.0.9 It has current patches from CentOS.

Pasted below are the version and output from dovecot -n When I run mail -s "test" username test <ctrl-D> mail is written to /var/spool/mail/username and not to /home/username/Maildir/

The user's client software, Thunderbird, logs in but since mail is not written to Maildir it thinks there is nothing (see paste below from /var/log/maillog)

How do I get sendmail or what ever MTA processes mail to write to Maildir rather than /var/spool/sendmail?

[root@info2 Maildir]# dovecot --version 2.0.9 [root@info2 Maildir]# dovecot -n # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-279.19.1.el6.i686 i686 CentOS release 6.3 (Final) disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { driver = pam } protocols = pop3 ssl = no ssl_cert =

Jan 10 08:11:13 info2 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<username>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.55.50, lip=192.168.55.8, mpid=30560 Jan 10 08:11:13 info2 dovecot: pop3(username): Debug: Effective uid=503, gid=503, home=/home/username Jan 10 08:11:13 info2 dovecot: pop3(username): Debug: maildir++: root=/home/username/Maildir, index=, control=, inbox=/home/username/Maildir Jan 10 08:11:13 info2 dovecot: pop3(username): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0