On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 07:51:43AM +0000, electron electron may have written:

I am trying to make dovecot work with sendmail If I use the default conf file (default_mail_env = ) then the inbox is the file /var/mail/user and a mail folder is created in /home/user directory where it stores all additional imap folders. The problem with this is that I can?t have subfolders. If I edit dovecot.conf file and enter default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%1u/%u/Maildir then I can create subfolders, but new emails are not stored in INBOX, but the stay in /var/mail/user.

This is because dovecot plays no role in the delivery of email. You will need to consult your sendmail configuration on how to make it deliver to a Maildir.

In order to overcome this issue I used procmail

[snip procmail config]

So now all emails are stored in Maildir format and again with the default dovecot.conf file it works fine.

That is because you made the system deliver to a Maildir, just like dovecot was expecting. This configuration is fine unless the server is too taxed to spawn an extra program for delivery each time.

I was wondering if there is an alternative way to do this, without using procmail?..just editing the dovecot.conf file.

You will need to consult sendmail's docs. dovecot is not involved with your problem.

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