[Dovecot] Mail files?

Jakob Curdes jc at info-systems.de
Mon Sep 5 23:31:45 EEST 2011


.. or on your local PC. If you do not want the /var/mail delivery, why
>> not just change the mail_location to point to the home dir only?
>
> I would also have to change where the program that sendmail uses to 
> deliver mail delivers the mail, correct?
Yes, often this is procmail.

You can set this in the respective config file with

MAILDIR=$HOME

Attention: "Maildir" here just is the mailbox location, procmail assumes 
the mbox format by default. If you actually use the "Maildir" _/format/_,
you must specify

MAILDIR=$HOME/



HTH,
Jakob Curdes



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