Hi,
I recently moved from courier-imap to dovecot, to be able to work with
managesieve. I use version 1.2.5, on suse 10.3. I used the script to
migrate the courier maildir to dovecot format.
It seems to work fine except for one problem : I use a number of
aliasses and with Thunderbird I can select which alias (e-mail-address)
to use as my identity when sending a mail.
I sniffed with wireshark, and with my standard identity, I see the
message appended to "Sent", like I expect. If I use an alias, I see a
folder being created : "INBOX.Sent", and then the message is appended
there.
Why the difference ?
I'm trying to debug this but dovecot does not help much. I tried rawlog
but there is no output (that I see) from it, no log-files in my maildir.
Any hints how to proceed ?
Output op dovecot -n :
# 1.2.5: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.22.19-0.4-default x86_64 openSUSE 10.3 (X86-64)
base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/
log_path: /var/log/dovecot
log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
listen: *:143
ssl_listen: *:993
ssl_ca_file: /etc/postfix/certificate/cacert.org.pem
ssl_cert_file: /etc/postfix/certificate/mailbox.pem
ssl_key_file: /etc/postfix/certificate/mailboxkey.pem
disable_plaintext_auth: no
verbose_ssl: yes
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login
login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
first_valid_uid: 499
last_valid_uid: 499
mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%u
mail_debug: yes
mail_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/rawlog /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
lda:
postmaster_address: postmaster at mydomain.com
sendmail_path: /usr/lib/sendmail
auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
mail_plugins: cmusieve
auth default:
mechanisms: plain login
user: nobody
verbose: yes
debug: yes
passdb:
driver: sql
args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
userdb:
driver: sql
args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
socket:
type: listen
client:
path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
mode: 432
user: postfix
group: postfix
master:
path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
mode: 432
user: vmail
group: vmail
Kind regards,
Koenraad Lelong.
Koenraad Lelong schreef:> Hi,... Sorry to reply to my own message, but that mail went to "Sent", not "INBOX.Sent" like I expected (this e-mail-address is also an alias). I can reproduce what I asked about though, with another e-mail-address. My confusion grows. Thanks for any pointers anyway. Regards, Koenraad Lelong.
Koenraad Lelong wrote:> Hi, > I recently moved from courier-imap to dovecot, to be able to work with > managesieve. I use version 1.2.5, on suse 10.3. I used the script to > migrate the courier maildir to dovecot format. > It seems to work fine except for one problem : I use a number of > aliasses and with Thunderbird I can select which alias > (e-mail-address) to use as my identity when sending a mail. > I sniffed with wireshark, and with my standard identity, I see the > message appended to "Sent", like I expect. If I use an alias, I see a > folder being created : "INBOX.Sent", and then the message is appended > there. > Why the difference ? > I'm trying to debug this but dovecot does not help much. I tried > rawlog but there is no output (that I see) from it, no log-files in my > maildir.The act of copying outgoing mail to a "Sent" folder is not an automatic one - certainly not from the server's point of view. Typically, this is implemented by the mail client - in this case, Thunderbird. If you have not gone well out of your way to configure some kind of server-side script - it's going to be client-driven. Within Thunderbird, under "Manage Identities", "Copies & Folders", you can specify the "Sent" folder to use. If using the default "Sent" folder results in a "INBOX.Sent", override the setting here and specify your correct folder. -- Daniel