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Hi dovecot-0.99.11-1.FC3.4.i386.rpm on FC3 when i create a user account with pop3 email i find that if i don't send and email to the account (so that sendmail creates the file under /var/spool/mail/testuser) where "testuser" is the users username. If the user logs in with Outlook or Outlook express they get an error and maillog shows. Apr 11 14:18:58 proteus2a pop3(testuser):

I was told to use dovecot because it was easier than cyrus. I just upgraded from fc1 to fc3. I am not sure what fc1 used but I think it was cyrus and it worked perfect out of the box no configurations to do. The new cyrus-imapd is not so simple so I got dovecot. I see examples saying to use mbox=~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u but when I try that I cannot map mail folders that reside

Hi, Why I get this message " You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root " in CentOs? My queries are the following - 1. Why this is generated ? 2. How to disable this ? 3. Is this system generated ? 4. Is this message gain any importance ? Thanks, Norah Jones

All, Not sure what to do next. Have imap working in that I can see messages in inbox. When I create a folder it won't create one. Looking at maillog shows that I don't have rights to folder /var/spool/mail/.sent or whatever folder I am trying to create. I have procmailrc and dovecot.conf point to /home/Maildir but for some reason something is tied to /var/spool/mail. Of course I am

Dear All On my server , the /var/spool/mail/root is getting very big in size . To free up more space, can you please let me know how can I solve my problem ? Thank you

Hi, I found some info messages below in /var/spool/mail/root. To reduce the size of that file, I'm wondering if there's a way to prevent those unimportant messages from entering /var/spool/mail/root. Thanks. 2010-05-10T10:32:27-05:00 <authpriv.info> se1 su: pam_unix(su-l:session): session closed for user root 2010-05-10T10:01:28-05:00 <local1.info> se1 Keepalived_vrrp:

CentOS Experts, I am receiving the following in /var/spool/mail/root. I cleaned out the file and then rebooted and the same errors came back. Is it possible to analyze the data and advise if there is an issue with my system? This is a completely fresh install. From user at localhost.srv.net Tue Jan 17 08:11:56 2012 Return-Path: <user at localhost.srv.net> X-Original-To: root at

Hi there, im new to dovecot but I made my way trough configuring it. I almost get it running at least for one IMAP user. The problem is I got no local user thus no home directories, all Mailboxes are in mbox format under: /var/spool/mail: Looks like this: -SNIP- drwx------ 3 web1p2 poponly 19 2004-08-13 00:05 indexes -rw------- 1 nobody nobody 0 2004-03-26 21:51

Hi colleagues, I am trying to setup dovecot and have a strange problem. I configured it to: #dovecot -n|grep ^mail mail_gid = mail mail_location = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%d/mailboxes/%n:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%d/%n mail_uid = mail And also setup exim4 to use it. I sent a test message and observe a mailbox file /var/spool/mail/domain/user, containing this message. But when I try to access

I was wondering if somebody could tell me how I can tell dovecot (IMAP) to read users' mail boxes at /var/spool/mail/{1st char}/{2nd char}/username . For example: Mailbox for user 'mike' would be located at /var/spool/mail/m/i/mike 'karen' would be at /var/spool/mail/k/a/karen etc... Is this possible is version 1.1.6? Please advise. Thanks JB

this is Redhat 6.3 I installed sendmail and dovecot. but sendmail can continue send mail as MTA all mails go to /var/spool/mail this is problem for dovecot. dovecot cannot get it goto dovecot inbox. if setup mailbox poing to /var/spool/mail/%u, it is workable but if set up maildir to somewhere else ,I cannot receive mail by dovecot.

remove /var/spool/mail/username if --enable user-account. Signed-off-by: Hu Tao <hutao@cn.fujitsu.com> --- sysprep/sysprep_operation_user_account.ml | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/sysprep/sysprep_operation_user_account.ml b/sysprep/sysprep_operation_user_account.ml index fda5547..bda6331 100644 --- a/sysprep/sysprep_operation_user_account.ml +++

(Complete newbie to dovecot. I hope what follows isn't something I've missed in some FAQ somewhere...) On a traditional UNIX filesystem with UW-IMAP several years ago, we encountered major performance problems when "/var/spool/mail/" got big (we would currently be ~20,000 entries). This was due to the inefficiency of the UNIX filesystem when creating and deleting the lockfiles

Hello I am working in a project and during my work an error has appeared in the use of the dovecot e mail server Squirrelmail an error occured:ERROR:Connection dropped by IMAP server and in the log mail we find: mail storage creation failed with mail location:mbox:/HOME_DIRECTORY_USED_BUT_NOT_GIVEN_USERDB/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/test1 at poste.tn child 5757(imap) returned error 89 can you give

Hi all, Does anyone know how to configure dovecot to read /var/spool/mail as the inbox using maildir format? Thanks in advance, Ben Halicki

Hi is it possible to run both under /var/spool/mail and if so how do i tell my LDA to deliver to the correct format mbox or maildir Mark

(repost gmane message as list member) I need some help with Dovecot-1.0rc2 on Gentoo Linux. My test harness is one Thunderbird-1.5.0.4 client, storage using legacy mbox directories ported over from an old UW-IMAP/sendmail combo running on RHL 8. Config is intended to be passwd/pam, plaintext login allowed (until I migrate everyone to ssl). After this is working, postfix and dspam are to be

Having FC3 systems and utilizing Dovecot, I have come to rely on some of the information I get from the daily logwatch run. Logwatch, by default, doesn't properly recognize dovecot's information in the messages file, but it is easy to tweak. The patch below will give you some statistics regarding POP3 and IMAP usage. I believe I grabbed all of the differences in the unified diff

HI folks, If this is the wrong forum for this question, please let me know (with a gentle pointer to the right place)...TIA for that. I've started to receive some 'Severe Errors' in my nightly logwatch emails. As the system had been initially misconfigured for logwatch emails, I've only recently begun to receive them, so I'm not entirely sure when this started. (long

Hello Family, (smd.conf file attached) Having had great success with 2.2.2 and my Linux box and Windows-2000 machines I switched to CUPS and now can't print again having made some slight edits in my smb.conf file (attached) for the change to CUPS. [1] I have to reloaded all the Windows drivers again on the Windows-2000 machines and still get the "Startdoc..." error. [2] The