Hi, I use Sarge's dovecot for a pop3 mail collection server. IMAP is not used at all. It works well, but I would like to know why one of the accounts also keeps a copy of all e-mail copies in the cur/ folder? Thanks a lot, Wally -- Wally Winchester wally_winchester at fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be
On Thursday 05 Jan 2006 13:57, Wally Winchester wrote:> Hi, > I use Sarge's dovecot for a pop3 mail collection server. IMAP is not > used at all. It works well, but I would like to know why one of the > accounts also keeps a copy of all e-mail copies in the cur/ folder?That is "maildir" not "IMAP". maildir is an alternative form of storing email. At a guess(!) the file name their email would have been stored in, already existed as a directory, so dovecot is trying to "cope" with an error. When they empty there inbox, just try renaming the whole folder, and sending them some email, if it creates an mbox you know what was wrong. Alternatively convert everyone to maildir.
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 05:57:07AM -0800, Wally Winchester wrote:> Hi, > I use Sarge's dovecot for a pop3 mail collection server. IMAP is not > used at all. It works well, but I would like to know why one of the > accounts also keeps a copy of all e-mail copies in the cur/ folder?Because the MUA popping the mail is configured to "leave messages on server". Sometimes it's called "Keep unread messages on server" or variations on the theme. It's usually configured in the same place on the MUA as the username and password for the account. If the answer only creates more questions for you, you'll probably find lots of information on search engine now that you have some decent keywords to use :-) HANY everybody