[Dovecot] maildir and /var/spool/mail

[Dan Stromberg]

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 12:58 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 12.1.2005, at 06:24, Steve Hickel wrote:
> 
> >  Not sure what to do next. Have imap working in that I can see 
> > messages in inbox. When I create a folder it won't create one. Looking 
> > at maillog shows that I don't have rights to folder 
> > /var/spool/mail/.sent or whatever folder I am trying to create. I have 
> > procmailrc and dovecot.conf point to /home/Maildir but for some reason 
> > something is tied to /var/spool/mail. Of course I am running FC3 and 
> > sendmail. Someone have any ideas as to what to try next?
> 
> Dovecot 0.99.x doesn't support mixed mbox/maildir setup. Either make 
> sendmail deliver mails to ~/Maildir/ (I don't know how that's done) or 
> use mbox folders. In any case your default_mail_env is most likely set 
> wrong because it's treating /var/spool/mail as user's root mail 
> directory. With mboxes it should be like:
> 
> default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u

One way of getting sendmail to deliver to Maildir folders, is to
configure procmail as your delivery agent.

I suspect that most linux distributions have sendmail configured to use
procmail for delivery out of the box.

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