On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 07:18:23AM +1200, Tony Wicks enlightened us:
Ok, I've got this new dovecot working thanks. The last bit is the users kept their imap folders on the /home/username/* directories, after copint one over and trying it a mail clints (thunderbird) cannot see the directories, have I missed something in the dovecot.conf file ?
I've never actually used dovecot, but I'll give you my best guess:
# Default MAIL environment to use when it's not set. By leaving this empty # dovecot tries to do some automatic detection as described in # doc/mail-storages.txt. There's a few special variables you can use: # # %u - username # %n - user part in user@domain, same as %u if there's no domain # %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if user there's no domain # %h - home directory # # You can also limit a width of string by giving the number of max. characters # after the '%' character. For example %1u gives the first character of # username. Some examples: # # default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%1u/%u/Maildir # default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u # default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n # #default_mail_env =
Something like:
default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
That assumes that your MTA delivers mail to /var/mail/username, and that after reading, messages are stored in the /home/username/mail
Matt