[Dovecot] create Sub-Subfolders

[Richard Gliebe]

On 8/9/10 5:40 PM Richard Gliebe wrote:
> On 8/9/10 5:21 PM Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 17:02 +0200, Richard Gliebe wrote:
>>
>>> when a user tries to create a sub-subfolder in Archiv, he gets the 
>>> message:
>>>
>>> "Mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes"
>>
>> Like Phill said, the problem is mbox format. If you don't want to switch
>> away from it, you can still create Archiv/stuff, if you just don't first
>> create Archiv as a mailbox. In IMAP protocol terms you need to:
>>
>> Create Archiv/ directory to filesystem:
>> 1 CREATE Archiv/
>> Create the mailbox file:
>> 2 CREATE Archiv/child
>>
>> The 1 step is actually optional. In any case you can probably do both in
>> the client UI as well by just adding the '/' manually.
>>
>>
> 
> thanks for the hint with mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir.
> Creating sub and sub-subfolders works.
> 
> but now, when I'm sending an email from user1 at ourdomain.at to 
> user2 at ourdomain.at, the mail is delivered to the users mailbox in 
> /var/spool/mail/<user2>.
> 
> How to I tell sendmail to deliver the mails to the right users Inbox 
> (~/Maildir)?
> 
> We are using
> # yum list | grep -i sendmail
> sendmail.x86_64        8.13.8-8.el5    installed
> sendmail-cf.x86_64    8.13.8-8.el5    installed
> 
> many thanks
> Richard
> 

sorry for the last mail:

procmail was the answer.

# cat /etc/procmailrc
DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/

Do I have to make more adjustments in procmailrc for dovecot/sendmail?
special for "maildir:~/Maildir"?

many thanks
Richard