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2006 Feb 02
3
not creating homedirs when using maildir format
Hi all,
I'm in the process of setting up dovecot, but for some reason, it's not
creating home directories if they don't already exist.
I have the following line in dovecot.conf:
default_mail_env = maildir:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
I have set permissions on /home to allow everyone full access, so creating
directories in /home by dovecot non-root processes shouldn't be a
2005 Feb 02
1
pam_mkhomedir and dovecot
Hi all,
Just wondering if anyone has successfully managed to configure pam_mkhomedir
and dovecot, so that users home directories are automatically created?
As far as I can tell, the login process runs as a non-root user, which
results in a permission denied error while trying to create the users home
directory. I'm not sure if this error is specific to dovecot or pam though.
Any thoughts
2005 Jan 12
2
maildir and /var/spool/mail
All,
Not sure what to do next. Have imap working in that I can see messages
in inbox. When I create a folder it won't create one. Looking at maillog
shows that I don't have rights to folder /var/spool/mail/.sent or
whatever folder I am trying to create. I have procmailrc and
dovecot.conf point to /home/Maildir but for some reason something is
tied to /var/spool/mail. Of course I am
2005 Jan 28
2
maildir and /var/spool/mail/$USER
I was told to use dovecot because it was easier than cyrus. I just
upgraded from fc1 to fc3. I am not sure what fc1 used but I think it was
cyrus and it worked perfect out of the box no configurations to do. The
new cyrus-imapd is not so simple so I got dovecot. I see examples saying
to use mbox=~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u but when I try that I
cannot map mail folders that reside
2006 Jul 25
2
Can't change permissions for /var/spool/postfix/dovecot.index.log
For some reason i can't change the permissions on /var/spool/postfix/
dovecot.index.log from postfix to dovecot, or anything else.
I changed all the files in /var/spool/postfix to be owner postfix so
that postfix wouldn't complain about insufficient priviledges.
I'm running MacOS X 10.4.7.
I can change it all I want, but the owner and group changes do not
'stick' - they
2006 Jul 05
2
/var/dovecot /var/spool/mail permissions, setup help (w/ config info)
(repost gmane message as list member)
I need some help with Dovecot-1.0rc2 on Gentoo Linux. My test harness is one
Thunderbird-1.5.0.4 client, storage using legacy mbox directories ported over
from an old UW-IMAP/sendmail combo running on RHL 8.
Config is intended to be passwd/pam, plaintext login allowed (until I migrate
everyone to ssl). After this is working, postfix and dspam are to be
2006 Feb 08
1
Dovecot does not access /var/mail when using Maildir
Hello,
I'm running debain on my machine with postfix, squirrelmail and dovecot
installed. Everything works fine and I'm able to access my mail via
squirrelmail and via Outlook with imap.
However I want to create subfolders what is not possible. After reading I
discovered that I use mbox and that maildir is needed in order to be able
to use subfolders.
I have created a Maildir folder with
2003 Apr 03
1
INBOX at /var in maildir storage format
Hi
I'm trying to figure out how to set default_mail_env to support such config:
INBOX is in '/var/mail/%u/' (note last slash at the end, %u is an folder with
new/tmp/cur subdirs - standard maildir structure).
Other imap folders are stored as files (in mbox format) in direcotry '%h/Mail/'.
Please advise.
2006 Jul 19
3
/var/spool/mail directory size and subdirectories
(Complete newbie to dovecot. I hope what follows isn't something I've
missed in some FAQ somewhere...)
On a traditional UNIX filesystem with UW-IMAP several years ago, we
encountered major performance problems when "/var/spool/mail/" got big (we
would currently be ~20,000 entries). This was due to the inefficiency of
the UNIX filesystem when creating and deleting the lockfiles
2006 May 06
2
Maildir folder hierarchy question
Hello all,
I am trying to set up Dovecot to use a particular
maildir folder hierarchy and have a problem that
relates to the inbox.
the folder hierarchy I want in /.../Maildir/ is:
.inbox
cur
new
tmp
.imap.index.files-for-inbox
.sent-items
cur
new
tmp
.imap.index.files-for-sent-items
however the hierarchy that dovecot gives me is
.inbox (unused)
.INBOX
.imap.index.files-for-.INBOX
2007 Nov 23
3
migrating from mbox to maildir
Hi all,
I have a locking problem in a Centos 4.4 linux machine with the
following config:
dovecot-0.99.11-8.EL4
postfix-2.2.10-1.1.el4
I use virtual mailboxes with postfix
currently I have dovecot with mbox as this:
default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/virtualmail/%d/%n
The problem is that mail is being delivered to mailboxes very very
slowly (sometimes up to 4 hours). In my logs, I have tons of
2004 Apr 26
1
Newbie Q: Setting up under linux: Spool directory.
I am trying to set up dovecot under linux. (RH9 if it matters). I'm
having trouble having it find the mail that is already delivered.
What I would like is that mail is delivered by fetch mail to
/var/spool/mail/mclay (that me) then have dovecot find it. I'm sure
that I have not set the dovecot.conf file correctly. The documentation
is unclear as to what "mbox" is and
2004 Aug 12
1
no local users - mbox all under /var/spool/mail/
Hi there,
im new to dovecot but I made my way trough configuring it. I almost get
it running at least for one IMAP user. The problem is I got no local
user thus no home directories, all Mailboxes are in mbox format under:
/var/spool/mail:
Looks like this:
-SNIP-
drwx------ 3 web1p2 poponly 19 2004-08-13 00:05 indexes
-rw------- 1 nobody nobody 0 2004-03-26 21:51
2006 Apr 03
2
Questions about differences to other mail servers
I just transferred over my first server from Suse Linux with
uw-imap(ipop3/imap2003) to CentOS with Dovecot (0.99). I didn't find any
problems in the testing phase, but when the actual transfer into
production happened I found a few problems crop up:
1. Dovecot wants to chdir in the user's home directory even when logging
in via POP3. However, the mailboxes for POP3 are all in
2005 Jul 07
1
stat() failed with mbox /var/mail/%u
Hello,
Over the last 12 hours or so, I've been wrestling with a mysterious
dovecot issue. After upgrading a mail server I'm helping my friend with
maintaining from Fedora Core1 to Fedora Core4, I realized that I
couldn't use UW-IMAP4 anymore (well, I can compile it myself, but it
turned out that UW-IMAP was the main cause of the server's having load
average as high as 30 from
2006 Apr 17
1
INBOX as mbox, other mailboxes as maildir
All,
I'm trying to teach dovecot to use the mbox format for /var/mail/%u
and maildir for /home/%u/Mail/ but I'm having quite a hard time. This
is Dovecot v1.0.beta3 under OpenBSD 3.9 on sparc64.
I've been fiddling with default_mail_env and also tried separate
namespaces, but all to no avail. Here's some of the things I tried :
default_mail_env =
2004 Sep 08
1
0.99 mail env
Greetings, all
Last night I migrated our mail between two machines... both running dovecot
0.99.xx.
In the process, I wanted to make some small changes, namely that new mail be
delivered to mboxs in /var/mail/%u and IMAP mail stored in Maildirs at ~/.imap ...
I tried using:
default_mail_env = maildir:~/.imap/:INBOX=mbox:/var/mail/%u
But had no luck. Is it only 1.0 that can work with two
2005 Apr 25
2
configuration problem: maildir folders and messages not found
Hi
Perhaps I've been going too far OT in my previous thread or perhaps I
just didn't explain my problem clear enough so forgive me for trying
again.
I have configured fetchmail to fetch my mail from my ISP's POP3-server.
I have set up procmail to filter messages and deliver all non-filtered
messages to the folder ".IN-catchall/" in "$HOME/Maildir"
After sending
2005 Mar 03
2
mbox or maildir?
I am using dovecot in an SMEServer (aka e-smith), and recently backed-up
on one system and restored on another system the imap email
directories. The trouble was that dovecot "guessed" the mail type
wrongly, and I ended up with "empty" ~/Mail directories (did it create
or populate these?), and full, but ignored ~/Maildir directories for
every user.
Could someone point me
2006 Aug 20
2
maildir autodetect failing. what's wrong with this setup?
i'm setting up for virtual_users w/ maildir.
i have in my dovecot.conf:
auth default {
passdb passwd-file {
args = /etc/dovecot/imapd.passwd
}
userdb static {
args = static uid=300 gid=300 home=/var/dovecot/mail
mail=maildir:/var/dovecot/mail/%d/%n/Maildir nice=10
}
}
default_mail_env =
maildir:/var/dovecot/mail/%d/%n/Maildir:INDEX=/var/dovecot/indexes/%d/%n
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