Hello,
I'm trying to migrate a legacy system to Dovecot in which I need to
support mbox format storage with the following parameters:
Inbox is in: /var/spool/mail/%u
Additional mail folders are stored in: /var/spool/mail2/%u (i.e. Spam,
Sent, Trash, Drafts, etc.)
/var/spool/mail and /var/spool/mail2 are configured with the same
permissions. (Read/write/execute user root, Read/write/execute group
mail). I've added mail as an additional group in the Dovecot
configuration.
# dovecot --version
1.0.10
# 1.0.10: /etc/dovecot.conf
ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
first_valid_uid: 100
mail_extra_groups: mail
mail_location:
mbox:/var/spool/mail2/%u:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=MEMORY
auth default:
passdb:
driver: pam
userdb:
driver: passwd
The problem is what when I run this configuration, I am not able to see
any of the contents of /var/spool/mail2. I ran around with this problem
for a while and ultimately found that the following fixes it:
cp -Rpfd /var/spool/mail2 /home
Change Dovecot to use /home/mail2/%u instead:
# 1.0.10: /etc/dovecot.conf
ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
first_valid_uid: 100
mail_extra_groups: mail
mail_location: mbox:/home/mail2/%u:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=MEMORY
auth default:
passdb:
driver: pam
userdb:
driver: passwd
Further investigation revealed that no path outside of /home would work
for the storage of the mbox directory. Any ideas? Everything seems to
work great except for this one (pretty major) issue.
Also, /home, /var, and / are separate filesystems. I'm not sure if
that's playing into this or not (doesn't seem like it, since it seems to
have no issue storing INBOX in /var/spool/mail).
Thanks,
-Bill