[Dovecot] Silly newbie questions...

[Andy Cravens]

First... are you going to use maildir (each email is a separate file) or 
mbox (all mail for a particular folder is in one file)?  Sounds like you 
have postfix set up for mbox and dovecot set up for maildir.  Both 
postfix and dovecot need to be setup for the same mailbox storage 
format.  Please let us know which format you want to use.  After that 
the setup is easy.  By the way, for general email I would recommend 
maildir.  I personally only use mbox for mailing list archives.

Awaiting your response...

--
Andy



Michael Segel wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm relatively new to dovecot, less than 48 hours, and I've ran in to a few 
>bugs in the installation/configuration process.
>
>
>Here's my set up.
>
>I have my own domain. Within the domain, I have a couple of Linux boxes.
>So I control both my primary and secondary mail servers.
>
>My Linux boxes are a mixture of SuSE 9.2, 9.3 and 10.0 (All based on age of 
>the hardware.)
>
>I'd like to use Postfix for my MTA, which I have up and running, but I'd also 
>like to add an IMAP server (hence dovecot) so I can get my mail from any of 
>my PCs and my blackberry.) 
>
>On my main mail server, I have KDE running and it uses 
>~/Mail/inbox/(cur,new,...) 
>
>When I tried to use KDE on my other Linux server, I got it to authenticate and 
>I could see the folders, but I couldn't see any of the mail. (Its all in cur 
>subdirectory.)
>
>Now I did notice that when Postfix gets a mail message, its placed 
>in /var/spool/mail/msegel which would imply its using an mbox format.
>
>So what am I missing?
>
>TIA!
>
>-Mike
>  
>