dovecot doesn't see my mails ?

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, Dave Myers wrote:

> Thanks for your input, and please excuse my clearly stupid questions.. ;)
>> The files q1.. belong to ~/mail/new/ . Exim does not spool them as Maildir. 
>> I would recommend to use Dovecot LDA or LMTP.
>
> where / how do I get that to work ?

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Variables?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=Exim&titlesearch=Titles
See LDA or LMTP

> I've added the required stuff to the dovecot and exim configs, but clearly I 
> need to install
> dovecot-lmtpd (error message about not finding the executable)

Maybe, you should begin with the LDA then.

> However I needed to install dovecot from source (as I couldn't get the server 
> to accept backports ?). Any advice on upgrading / changing the install ?
>
> Can I simply make a copy of the whole of my config (which otherwise works), 
> then do the same install from a /deb source file for lmtpd, then copy my 
> config back to this location?
>
> Or do you advise some other path for the upgrade ?

Usually, you see how Debian compiles the source - the ./configure options 
. But I wonder if you want to overwrite the system places. That's you 
decision. I would: use the LDA now, in order to get the server to work. 
Then use a test system for the LMTP stuff.

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Steffen Kaiser
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