[Dovecot] Maildir structure question

[Nicolas KOWALSKI]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 05:14:16PM -0500, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 21:50 +0100, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 03:15:17PM -0500, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > > > There are no 'cur', 'new' and 'tmp' directories in ~/Maildir, as written 
> > > > in the wiki, but instead this .INBOX directory which contains these 
> > > > 'cur', 'new' and 'tmp'.
> > > > 
> > > > Is this expected ? Thanks.
> > > 
> > > No, it's not expected. And you mean Dovecot actually finds the mails
> > > from the .INBOX? I don't really see how/why it would with your
> > > configuration.
> > 
> > Yes, dovecot find the mails in INBOX from ~/Maildir/.INBOX . The deliver 
> > tool also stores incoming mail in this folder.
> > 
> > If you want, I have strace output of a sample deliver run.
> 
> Better than strace would be to set mail_debug=yes and show the logs.

Here are the logs for a deliver run:

Feb  7 10:01:20 petole deliver(niko): Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda
Feb  7 10:01:20 petole deliver(niko): Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so
Feb  7 10:01:20 petole deliver(niko): Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes
Feb  7 10:01:20 petole deliver(niko): maildir: data=/home/niko/Maildir
Feb  7 10:01:20 petole deliver(niko): maildir++: root=/home/niko/Maildir, index=, control=, inbox=
Feb  7 10:01:20 petole deliver(niko): cmusieve: Using sieve path: /home/niko/.dovecot.sieve
Feb  7 10:01:20 petole deliver(niko): cmusieve: Executing script /home/niko/.dovecot.sievec
Feb  7 10:01:20 petole deliver(niko): msgid=<20090207090120.5BA2E8425 at petole.demisel.net>: saved mail to INBOX


Here are the logs when using Alpine:

Feb  7 10:02:49 petole dovecot: IMAP(niko): Effective uid=1000, gid=1000, home=/home/niko
Feb  7 10:02:49 petole dovecot: IMAP(niko): Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes
Feb  7 10:02:49 petole dovecot: IMAP(niko): maildir: data=~/Maildir
Feb  7 10:02:49 petole dovecot: IMAP(niko): maildir++: root=/home/niko/Maildir, index=, control=, inbox=
Feb  7 10:02:49 petole dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<niko>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.0.1, lip=192.168.0.1, TLS



My current configuration:

petole:~# dovecot -n
# 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.28.3 i686 Debian 4.0
ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/petole.demisel.net.pem
ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/petole.demisel.net.pem
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir
mail_debug: yes
namespace:
  type: private
  separator: /
  list: yes
  subscriptions: yes
auth default:
  passdb:
    driver: pam
  userdb:
    driver: passwd
  socket:
    type: listen
    master:
      path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
      mode: 384


-- 
Nicolas