[Dovecot] new to dovecot

[John O'Loughlin]

Hi Andrew

thanks for the reply.

Cheers
John

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Andrew Hutchings wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 18:07 +0100, John O'Loughlin wrote:
>> Hello all
>>
>> I'm new to dovecot (and imap in general!) having installed only only
>> today. My current set up is exim as MTA with procmail delivering
>> /var/spool/mail/%user (which gets nfs exported). We also have a pop3
>> server running as well. I'm  moving to new machine and though I'd look at
>> dovecot and squirrelmail.
>>
>> In /etc/dovecot.conf I'm confused by the default_mail_env, what exactly
>> are we trying to set here? We have $MAIL set already, so for example what
>> does the line:
>>
>> default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
>>
>> try to set
>>
>> Cheers
>> John
>>
>
> Hi John,
>
> That looks right to me, it basically means that the inbox
> is /var/mail/[user] and subfolders are stored in /~/mail/
> I suggest something like the following for you as you are using NFS,
> simply because the indexes aren't very NFS safe and unique to each
> machine anyway:
>
> default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%
> u:INDEX=/tmp/dovecot/indexes/%u
>
> Regards
> Andrew
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