dovecot - Oct 2005 - new to dovecot

Hello all

I'm new to dovecot (and imap in general!) having installed only only 
today. My current set up is exim as MTA with procmail delivering 
/var/spool/mail/%user (which gets nfs exported). We also have a pop3 
server running as well. I'm  moving to new machine and though I'd look
at
dovecot and squirrelmail.

In /etc/dovecot.conf I'm confused by the default_mail_env, what exactly 
are we trying to set here? We have $MAIL set already, so for example what 
does the line:

default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

try to set

Cheers
John

On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 18:07 +0100, John O'Loughlin
wrote:
> Hello all
> 
> I'm new to dovecot (and imap in general!) having installed only only 
> today. My current set up is exim as MTA with procmail delivering 
> /var/spool/mail/%user (which gets nfs exported). We also have a pop3 
> server running as well. I'm  moving to new machine and though I'd
look at
> dovecot and squirrelmail.
> 
> In /etc/dovecot.conf I'm confused by the default_mail_env, what exactly
> are we trying to set here? We have $MAIL set already, so for example what 
> does the line:
> 
> default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
> 
> try to set
> 
> Cheers
> John
> 
Hi John,

That looks right to me, it basically means that the inbox
is /var/mail/[user] and subfolders are stored in /~/mail/
I suggest something like the following for you as you are using NFS,
simply because the indexes aren't very NFS safe and unique to each
machine anyway:

default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%
u:INDEX=/tmp/dovecot/indexes/%u

Regards
Andrew
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