[Dovecot] help on MailLocation please!

[Li Wei Nan]

Thank you very much Timo, it works!

On Dec 1, 2008, at 7:09 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Dec 1, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Li Wei Nan wrote:
>
>> 	I'm now using dovecot with a POP3&SMTP server called JAMES. I want  
>> dovecot and james to share the email location. Both dovecot and  
>> james can store email in mbox format. However, the james will only  
>> store mbox mail repo in a fixed dir, such as: /var/mail/
>> 	And it will naming each user's mbox repo by its name, such as /var/ 
>> mail/tom or /var/mail/peter, etc. So I have to config dovecot for  
>> it to fit the situation. So I config dovecot as:
>>
>> 	mail_location = mbox:/var/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
>>
>> 	The inbox get worked now, dovecot can read the mbox file created  
>> by james correctly. However, dovecot make each user's Trash, Sent  
>> in same directory: /var/mail. So it means all the user just have  
>> one Trash, Sent. I've read the Wiki carefully and tried some  
>> different config and still cannot get it work.
>
> You'll have to give a per-user directory where Dovecot can store the  
> mails. Since POP3 supports only one mailbox, James doesn't need to  
> know about this directory. You could use for example:
>
> mail_location = mbox:/var/mail/folders/%u:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
>
>> 	- Let dovecot read everyone's inbox at: /var/mail/%u (it's a mbox  
>> file, not dir)
>> 	- Let dovecot store everyone's Trash, Sent in /var/mail/%u/mail
>
> /var/mail/%u is a file, you can't use it as a directory.