I am lost as to what I am missing. I am setting up dovecot 2.0.9 on a RHEL 6.4 machine as provided by my provider. I have IMAP up and running, and I have POP3 up and running. Testing confirms this. Also, if it makes a difference, I enabled dovecot as my LDA. Sendmail was setup as well due to our 1.x version using it and I though I had to. Anyway, everything is working perfectly with the services, except the mail is sending to the wrong location for POP. I am trying to use Maildir for both services, but it keeps delivering the POP3 mail to /var/spool/mail/u% instead of to Maildir as specified in the configuration files. I have rechecked every setting at least twice and still can't see what I am doing wrong. I suppose I can use mbox and redirect after making the appropriate namespace changes, but that has it's own potential drawbacks and seems more like a kludge than the correct way around this (unless I misunderstand how it should work). Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to fix this? Thanks in advance, Thomas Higgins
On 09/10/2013 03:40, Thomas I Higgins wrote:> I am lost as to what I am missing. I am setting up dovecot 2.0.9 on a > RHEL > 6.4 machine as provided by my provider. I have IMAP up and running, > and I > have POP3 up and running. Testing confirms this. Also, if it makes a > difference, I enabled dovecot as my LDA. Sendmail was setup as well > due to > our 1.x version using it and I though I had to. Anyway, everything is > working perfectly with the services, except the mail is sending to the > wrong location for POP. I am trying to use Maildir for both services, > but > it keeps delivering the POP3 mail to /var/spool/mail/u% instead of to > Maildir as specified in the configuration files. I have rechecked > every > setting at least twice and still can't see what I am doing wrong. I > suppose I can use mbox and redirect after making the appropriate > namespace > changes, but that has it's own potential drawbacks and seems more like > a > kludge than the correct way around this (unless I misunderstand how it > should work). Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to fix > this? > > Thanks in advance, > > Thomas Higginsit's a lovely day here, but you must be far away and bad weather in between us, as my ESP doesnt seem to get through, so we'll have to revert to the old manual hard labour way by you executing doveconf -n , copy and pasting that output into a list reply.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Thomas I Higgins wrote:> our 1.x version using it and I though I had to. Anyway, everything is > working perfectly with the services, except the mail is sending to the > wrong location for POP. I am trying to use Maildir for both services, but > it keeps delivering the POP3 mail to /var/spool/mail/u% instead of to > Maildir as specified in the configuration files. I have rechecked everyNext to Noel's advice, please explain what "it keeps delivering the POP3 mail" shall mean. Who/what is "it" and why a mail retrieval protocol, like POP3, gets mail delivered? Do you mean that Dovecot uses the wrong location, when an user pops messages via the POP3 protocol? Kind regards, - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBUlTyc13r2wJMiz2NAQJmpAgAsVIByWoXelEZ9uMN3FxToWl53toPFkqP zNkPMv4L4i3hMb2Ak26cbaYAg7h2lfUoT1y7jxbivx+vutqovDJeq1YKJ813Ah4C 7lsK+G3FqNeQ8AQrjsxDEGSf5Iw4gAfH1JOBwtgh/0fSFmpJ1aVN2SlLIcsM2+8f gjYELp4JDja8zRNlwuD+PH0ZYGGDZpo3NqKWS+Puk5XYYQlR9tPh+xXHDdNQmlbI 9pw+4DOgB5pYOiqDniNdOFFl8HH6XqPQ3Rd/ubRNhSP9camPSrs6ynOpeknicjI3 F0fTukiK7ype0OusnFq/Z2WmMeEMtv5sjMDa7s5+y5kef3S8q1sShQ==xDsc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----