[Dovecot] Postfix and Maildirs

[Steve Sloan]

Hope someone can help me with this as I am presently stuck

I am setting up a new server with Dovecot 0.99.10, Redhat 9.0, Postfix, 
Amavisd-new and maildir's in the users home drive.
I am using Netscape mail 7.1 as the main client to access the mail store 
via imap which works fine and various other imap clients can access the 
maildirs Ok as well.
The problem is when Postfix delivers a message is insists on making a 
second Maildir directory in the user's home drive and put the message in 
there.
The  Maildir's  are being created automatically ie. I didn't use 
maildirmake. Even if I delete one of the Maildir's it just gets 
recreated again.
ie. this is the test user's home drive

drwx------   10 test2    test2        4096 Aug 23 20:53 Maildir
drwx------    6 test2    test2        4096 Aug 24 11:05 Maildir

This is the Maildir that the clients are using and being accessed by Dovecot

drwx------   10 test2    test2        4096 Aug 23 20:53 .
drwx------    4 test2    test2        4096 Aug 24 11:05 ..
drwx------    2 test2    test2        4096 Aug 23 19:58 cur
-rw-------    1 test2    test2           5 Aug 23 19:58 .customflags
drwx------    5 test2    test2        4096 Aug 23 19:59 .Drafts
drwx------    2 test2    test2        4096 Aug 23 19:58 .INBOX
drwx------    2 test2    test2        4096 Aug 23 19:58 new
drwx------    5 test2    test2        4096 Aug 23 20:15 .Sent
-rw-------    1 test2    test2          29 Aug 23 20:13 .subscriptions
drwx------    5 test2    test2        4096 Aug 23 20:11 .test
drwx------    2 test2    test2        4096 Aug 23 19:58 tmp
drwx------    5 test2    test2        4096 Aug 23 20:11 .Trash

and the other one which Postfix user's

drwx------    6 test2    test2        4096 Aug 24 11:05 .
drwx------    4 test2    test2        4096 Aug 24 11:05 ..
drwx------    2 test2    test2        4096 Aug 24 11:05 cur
-rw-------    1 test2    test2           5 Aug 24 11:05 .customflags
drwx------    2 test2    test2        4096 Aug 24 11:05 .INBOX
drwx------    2 test2    test2        4096 Aug 24 11:05 new
drwx------    2 test2    test2        4096 Aug 24 11:05 tmp

This one has no index files and looks just like a courier Maildir

For Postfix main.cf I have set
home_mailbox = Maildir/
and
/etc/dovecot.conf
default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir

Hope this make sense to someone

Steve

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