Hi,
I'm having great difficulty pointing Dovecot to my MBox files. They are all in /var/spool/mail/username as textfiles.. not directories.
So my guess was:
default_mail_env = /var/spool/mail/%u
Since %u is user. If the user is "server" I would expect it to go to /var/spool/mail/server exactly what I want. But it doesn't /var/spool/mail///home/server.
If I create the directory home in /var/spool/mail and make a symlink of the username pointing to /var/spool/mail it does work. But that's a very dirty workaround I rather not use, also because we have a lot of users.. a lot of symlinks.
If I set default_mail_env = /var/spool/mail, it also searches for /var/spool/mail///home/server.
I feel like I've tried everything. What am I doing wrong?
I'm using version 1.0.beta8, included in Fedora Core 5.
Thanks,
Rick
Rick wrote:
Hi,
I'm having great difficulty pointing Dovecot to my MBox files. They are all in /var/spool/mail/username as textfiles.. not directories.
Do you mean that INBOXes are /var/spool/mail/<username> and, if so, where are the folders, or are you just using POP? You probably want
default_mail_env = mbox:/path/to/folders:INBOX=/path/to/inbox
Best Wishes, Chris
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