Hello, please excuse my asking a question about simple configuration rather
than something about a suspected bug or other detailed enquiry.
I've set up dovecot (1.0.13, from http://www.blastwave.org) and when
Thunderbird connects to it, all is well and I see folders as expected. When
MacOS X mail connects however, it sees my home directory on the dovecot
machine, not the mail directory. Now setting-aside the obvious rant about
why MacOS has to be gratuitously different *again*, I would like to configure
dovecot not to serve my home directory. I keeping saying I/my as this is
just a personal set-up at home.
This IMAP stuff is a bit involved but I thought namespaces would be the answer
but it seems not. That is, I have
namespace private {
location = /var/marchive/%u
inbox = yes
}
but even this still allows Mac Mail to see the home directory. What else
should I do to stop dovecot serving my home directory ? I realise that there
is also a problem with the client, that Mac Mail is *asking for* my home
directory rather than the mail folder, but that's another problem, not for
this list.
Thanks in expectation.
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 12:10 +1000, Michael Mounteney wrote:> Hello, please excuse my asking a question about simple configuration rather > than something about a suspected bug or other detailed enquiry. > > I've set up dovecot (1.0.13, from http://www.blastwave.org) and when > Thunderbird connects to it, all is well and I see folders as expected.You've probably configured a namespace prefix to it.> When > MacOS X mail connects however, it sees my home directory on the dovecot > machine, not the mail directory.Then you're serving home directory by default and you haven't set namespace prefix to OSX Mail.> This IMAP stuff is a bit involved but I thought namespaces would be the answer > but it seems not. That is, I have > > namespace private { > location = /var/marchive/%u > inbox = yes > } > > but even this still allows Mac Mail to see the home directory. What else > should I do to stop dovecot serving my home directory ?You don't have to define any namespaces. Just make sure mail_location points to your mail directory. If it doesn't seem to help, set mail_debug=yes and look at the logs to see what directory Dovecot is really looking at. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20080720/9ce13c49/attachment-0002.bin>