Question on pop3

Sami Ketola sami.ketola at dovecot.fi
Mon Mar 23 22:51:36 EET 2020



> On 22 Mar 2020, at 21.46, ratatouille <ratatouille at bitclusive.de> wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Email is stored as plain textfile in /var/mail/andreas. I assume this is mbox-format.
> 
> I get the following in the log telneting to localhost:
> 
> 2020-03-22 20:21:10 imap(andreas at dualbit.de): Error: chdir(/var/spool/mail/andreas) failed: Not a directory
> 2020-03-22 20:21:10 imap(andreas at dualbit.de): Error: Namespace '': Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/var/spool/mail/andreas
> 2020-03-22 20:21:10 imap(andreas at dualbit.de): Info: Namespace '': Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/var/spool/mail/andreas in=0 out=372
> 
> In case in the passwd-file I specify userdb_mail=mbox:/var/mail/andreas:INBOX=/var/mail/%n I see:

This will not work. Please point mail to somewhere else. like: userdb_mail=mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%n

Sami



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