dovecot - Feb 2006 - Dovecot does not access /var/mail when using Maildir

Hello,

I'm running debain on my machine with postfix, squirrelmail and dovecot
installed. Everything works fine and I'm able to access my mail via
squirrelmail and via Outlook with imap.
However I want to create subfolders what is not possible. After reading I
discovered that I use mbox and that maildir is needed in order to be able
to use subfolders.
I have created a Maildir folder with the  maildirmake.dovecot command in
my /home/mirko directory and corrected the owner.
Now dovecot uses the Maildir and I can create subfolers. However my
problem is that I don't receive Emails in my Inbox. Incoming mails are
delivered to /var/mail/mirko, but when dovecot uses Maildir it doesn't
access this. I have played with the default_mail_env settings in
dovecot.conf which does influence the use of mbox or Maildir. However the
problem remains: As soon as Maildir is used, the Inbox is empty and I
don't receive Email.

Is there a way when Maildir is used to point dovecot to /var/mail/ for the
incoming Email? Or do I something else wrong?
Your help is appreciated.

Greetings,
Mirko

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mirko at mirkonet.nl wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm running debain on my machine with postfix, squirrelmail and dovecot
> installed. Everything works fine and I'm able to access my mail via
> squirrelmail and via Outlook with imap.
> However I want to create subfolders what is not possible. After reading I
> discovered that I use mbox and that maildir is needed in order to be able
> to use subfolders.
> I have created a Maildir folder with the  maildirmake.dovecot command in
> my /home/mirko directory and corrected the owner.
> Now dovecot uses the Maildir and I can create subfolers. However my
> problem is that I don't receive Emails in my Inbox. Incoming mails are
> delivered to /var/mail/mirko, but when dovecot uses Maildir it doesn't
> access this. I have played with the default_mail_env settings in
> dovecot.conf which does influence the use of mbox or Maildir. However the
> problem remains: As soon as Maildir is used, the Inbox is empty and I
> don't receive Email.
> 
> Is there a way when Maildir is used to point dovecot to /var/mail/ for the
> incoming Email? Or do I something else wrong?
> Your help is appreciated.
> 
> Greetings,
> Mirko
> 
> 
Mirko,

 I don't use Postfix, so I don't know specifically how to do this, but
you'll need to tell Postfix (or more specifically whatever postfix uses
for local mail delivery) to deliver to Maildir format files.  Once you
do this, everything should start working as you expect it to.

currently your local mail delivery agent is still configured to delivery
to mbox format files and thus into /var/mail/

hope this helps

alan
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