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Hello, I'm running the latest version of dovecot on Linux with mbox mailboxes. Everything works fine. So in my dovecot config I have mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u I would like to now change the mail_location for one user in an attempt to slowly migrate to Maildir format. I'm confused how to do this. I'm running shadow passwords: $: doveconf -n passdb passdb {

I'm running dovecot 2.2.5 and would like to completely turn off all automatic adding of mount points. So var/lib/dovecot/mounts would be empty essentially. Is this possible? Somehow dovecot always adds a mount point that does not exist and was removed a long time ago. I've dove: doveadm mount add '/my custom path/*' ignore but it still will add mount points in the

Hello, I'm attempting to move form qpopper 4.1 to Dovecot 2.2.5 on Linux. When a user checks POP mail qpopper seems to make a .username.pop temporary file in the same /var/mail directory as the mbox INBOX file. Watching what dovecot does I don't see this happening. Is this .pop file a lock file or just a temporary file? If its a temp file does dovecot do the same thing elsewhere?