[IMAP] Nothing in INBOX

Christian Schmidt
2015-10-01T12:07:29Z

Hello Yvon,

On 30.09.2015 15:14, Yvon Thoraval wrote:
> I've just installed Postfix + Dovecot on Xubunto 14.04 LTS.
> Following this page :
> Setup a mail server with Postfix and Dovecot on Ubuntu / Debian
> <http://www.binarytides.com/install-postfix-dovecot-debian/>
>
> although I'm able to send emails to GMail and other kind of domain,
nothing
> appears on Thunderbird INBOX, nor using openssl :
> [..]
> However, using mail, i can read the emails :
>
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>
> $ mail
>
> Heirloom mailx version 12.5 6/20/10.  Type ? for help.
>
> "/var/mail/desktop": 20 messages 9 new 18 unread
> [..]
> my dovecot setup uses vhosts :
>
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>
> $ ls -al /var/mail/vhosts/<DOMAIN>/<USER>/
> [..]
> with nothing in new subfolder:

As you wrote, mail accesses and displays /var/mail/desktop, but you told
dovecot to serve mails from var/mail/vhosts/<DOMAIN>/<USER>.

You probably want postfix to hand over mails to dovecot via lmtp.

Mit freundlichen Gr??en
Christian Schmidt

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