dovecot - Dec 2004 - newbie question

Hello all,

just managed to install dovecot as imap server on a Suse Linux box. Now running
fine with mbox format. A question regarding maildir or mbox. The MDA (in my case
sendmail, Mlocal = procmail) stores mbox format. Do have to modify the local
mailer to store maildir format or does dovecot convert automatically from mbox
when I tell dovecot to use maildir format?

Thanks, for any hint.

Carsten

* Grammes, Carsten <cg at dialogika.de> [12-03-2004
10:51]:
>
> Hello all,
> 
> just managed to install dovecot as imap server on a Suse Linux box. Now
running fine with mbox format. A question regarding maildir or mbox. The MDA (in
my case sendmail, Mlocal = procmail) stores mbox format. Do have to modify the
local mailer to store maildir format or does dovecot convert automatically from
mbox when I tell dovecot to use maildir format?
> 
> Thanks, for any hint.
> 
> Carsten
If your system uses mbox, then you probably want to tell Dovecot to
use mbox.  

If you really want to use maildir, you can have procmail deliver to
maildirs:
(in .procmailrc):
DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/       

Note the trailing slash - that's the kicker.  

Then tell Dovecot to use maildir.

If you want to mix and match mailbox formats per user, then you'll
need to use an auth database that allows setting this (passwd-file, or
maybe ldap or sql).



-Jon

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Jon Nathan
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