Problem: Dovecot is totally and merrily oblivious to maildir INBOX installed in the usual /var/spool/mail/%u Software/system: Dovecot 1.2.8 running under Fedora 12 with 1.9 gig RAM + AMD Athlon LE-1640 CPU on a ASUS M3A78-EM motherboard (uname -a Linux 2.6.31.6-162.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 4 00:06:26 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ) Dovecot has been installed from the Fedora repositories, not recompiled from scratch. System has only one hard disk and is on one ext4 LVM partition. My configurations are http://emdx.org/Dovecot/dovecot.confA.txt for "dovecot -a" http://emdx.org/Dovecot/dovecot.confN.txt for "dovecot -n" The mail is properly delivered by Exim in the proper place. Using a client (Thunderbird 3), if I copy some messages in the INBOX, they stay there, but they are nowhere to be found in the /var/spool/mail/%u directory. User mail is in ~/Maildir. I tried to make a symlink pointing to /var/spool/mail/%u and, of course, it does not work. I also tried giving chmod 666 to all files in /var/spool/mail/%u (and chmod 777 for the directories), this makes no difference. Otherwise, Dovecot works flawlessly and without no problems whatsoever in ~/Maildir. I can transfer huge volumes of email from the future old server and everything is rock solid. I just can?t get the INBOX. I would rather not fiddle with Exim and have it deliver the mail into ~/Maildir Google has been stellarly inefficient in helping me find solutions.
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 17:04 -0500, Marc Dufour wrote:> Dovecot is totally and merrily oblivious to maildir INBOX installed in > the usual /var/spool/mail/%u..> User mail is in ~/Maildir.So you want INBOX to be in mbox format in /var/spool/mail/%u, and everything else in Maildir format in ~/Maildir?> I would rather not fiddle with Exim and have it deliver the mail into > ~/MaildirThat would be the best long term solution, but .. : http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces#Mixed_mbox_and_Maildir -------------- 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/20091209/14c0c6de/attachment-0002.bin>
Timo Sirainen wrote:> On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 17:04 -0500, Marc Dufour wrote: >> Dovecot is totally and merrily oblivious to maildir INBOX installed in >> the usual /var/spool/mail/%u > .. >> User mail is in ~/Maildir. > > So you want INBOX to be in mbox format in /var/spool/mail/%u, and > everything else in Maildir format in ~/Maildir?Not at all. I want 100% pure, natural maildir. Exim already delivers fine in maildir.
On 09/12/2009 17:11, Timo Sirainen wrote:> That would be the best long term solution, but .. : > http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces#Mixed_mbox_and_Maildir > >Well, I tried that and it works, so this is what I have decided to use. Thanks very much for the pointer.