[Dovecot] help on MailLocation please!
Hi Everyone,
I'm now using dovecot with a POP3&SMTP server called JAMES. I want dovecot and james to share the email location. Both dovecot and james
can store email in mbox format. However, the james will only store
mbox mail repo in a fixed dir, such as: /var/mail/
And it will naming each user's mbox repo by its name, such as /var/
mail/tom or /var/mail/peter, etc. So I have to config dovecot for it
to fit the situation. So I config dovecot as:
mail_location = mbox:/var/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
The inbox get worked now, dovecot can read the mbox file created by james correctly. However, dovecot make each user's Trash, Sent in same
directory: /var/mail. So it means all the user just have one Trash,
Sent. I've read the Wiki carefully and tried some different config and
still cannot get it work.
Can anyone gives me some advice on it? Thanks a lot! What I hope to achieve is:
- Let dovecot read everyone's inbox at: /var/mail/%u (it's a mbox file, not dir) - Let dovecot store everyone's Trash, Sent in /var/mail/%u/mail
Thanks in advance.
- Li Wei Nan
On Dec 1, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Li Wei Nan wrote:
I'm now using dovecot with a POP3&SMTP server called JAMES. I want
dovecot and james to share the email location. Both dovecot and
james can store email in mbox format. However, the james will only
store mbox mail repo in a fixed dir, such as: /var/mail/ And it will naming each user's mbox repo by its name, such as /var/ mail/tom or /var/mail/peter, etc. So I have to config dovecot for it
to fit the situation. So I config dovecot as:mail_location = mbox:/var/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
The inbox get worked now, dovecot can read the mbox file created by
james correctly. However, dovecot make each user's Trash, Sent in
same directory: /var/mail. So it means all the user just have one
Trash, Sent. I've read the Wiki carefully and tried some different
config and still cannot get it work.
You'll have to give a per-user directory where Dovecot can store the
mails. Since POP3 supports only one mailbox, James doesn't need to
know about this directory. You could use for example:
mail_location = mbox:/var/mail/folders/%u:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
- Let dovecot read everyone's inbox at: /var/mail/%u (it's a mbox
file, not dir)- Let dovecot store everyone's Trash, Sent in /var/mail/%u/mail
/var/mail/%u is a file, you can't use it as a directory.
Thank you very much Timo, it works!
On Dec 1, 2008, at 7:09 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Dec 1, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Li Wei Nan wrote:
I'm now using dovecot with a POP3&SMTP server called JAMES. I want
dovecot and james to share the email location. Both dovecot and
james can store email in mbox format. However, the james will only
store mbox mail repo in a fixed dir, such as: /var/mail/ And it will naming each user's mbox repo by its name, such as /var/ mail/tom or /var/mail/peter, etc. So I have to config dovecot for
it to fit the situation. So I config dovecot as:mail_location = mbox:/var/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
The inbox get worked now, dovecot can read the mbox file created
by james correctly. However, dovecot make each user's Trash, Sent
in same directory: /var/mail. So it means all the user just have
one Trash, Sent. I've read the Wiki carefully and tried some
different config and still cannot get it work.You'll have to give a per-user directory where Dovecot can store the
mails. Since POP3 supports only one mailbox, James doesn't need to
know about this directory. You could use for example:mail_location = mbox:/var/mail/folders/%u:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
- Let dovecot read everyone's inbox at: /var/mail/%u (it's a mbox
file, not dir)- Let dovecot store everyone's Trash, Sent in /var/mail/%u/mail
/var/mail/%u is a file, you can't use it as a directory.
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Li Wei Nan
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Timo Sirainen