[Dovecot] trying to see different files

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Sep 23 15:10:29 EEST 2005


On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 18:59 -0500, David Willoughby wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 04:44:04PM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> > One could also use procmail as one's LDA. This is the standard 
> > configuration on Red Hat distros. What does the Dovecot LDA offer over 
> > procmail?
> i use procmail to sort my maildir.  everyting in Mail/ in my home directory is mail.  but i can't seem to find a way to get it to even see mbox in Mail/.  I want to be able to see mail in /var/mail/user and /home/user/Mail/.  

If you tell Dovecot to look mboxes in Mail/ directory, it should find
them:

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

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