[Dovecot] Disagreement on where mail goes.

Bob Miller bob at computerisms.ca
Sat Aug 17 02:55:58 EEST 2013


One guess: your mail_location is misconfigured.

something like:

mail_location = maildir:/usr/local/%u/Maildir

might fix it up... 
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On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 17:09 -0600, LuKreme wrote:
> My virtual users have their mail stored in /usr/local/virtual/user at example.com/
> 
> dovecot wants to read the mail from /usr/local/virtual/user at example.com/Maildir which is causing problems since all new mail is being written in /usr/local/virtual/user at example.com/new and dovecot is looking in /usr/local/virtual/user at example.com/Maildir/new
> 
> For the local users, /home/user/Maildir is the right directory.
> 
> for right now I've had to kludge a script that moves mail from  /usr/local/virtual/user at example.com/new to /usr/local/virtual/user at example.com/Maildir/new every two minutes.
> 



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