[Dovecot] POP3 only - why is cur/ growing?

[Florian Schnabel]

Simon Waters wrote:
> On Thursday 05 Jan 2006 13:57, Wally Winchester wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I use Sarge's dovecot for a pop3 mail collection server. IMAP is not
>> used at all. It works well, but I would like to know why one of the
>> accounts also keeps a copy of all e-mail copies in the cur/ folder?
> 
> That is "maildir" not "IMAP".
> 
> maildir is an alternative form of storing email.
> 
> At a guess(!) the file name their email would have been stored in, already 
> existed as a directory, so dovecot is trying to "cope" with an error.
> 
> When they empty there inbox, just try renaming the whole folder, and sending 
> them some email, if it creates an mbox you know what was wrong.
> 
> Alternatively convert everyone to maildir.
> 

also, it could be a working maildir with someone using the setting to 
delete pop3 mails on the server after a certaint timespan or not at all ..

Florian