[Dovecot] dovecot+postifx+ldap

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Sep 2 15:32:15 EEST 2004


On 2.9.2004, at 15:25, venne wrote:

> the /var/mail/%u files exist, and I put 777 mask. but, i can't read my 
> mails, even when i'm authentified. how to allow mbox with dovecot???
>
> my setup doesn't make any thing
>
> default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/%u

That doesn't work. It would expect /var/mail/user to be a directory 
containing mboxes. You want something like:

default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

(and if you only want INBOX, see last chapter of 
http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/VirtualUsers)
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