[Dovecot] configuration query

Timo Sirainen
Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:11:38 -0000

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.
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