Hi all,
I'm following a how-to for ISPConfig using CentOS5.1 and have run into the following instruction:
----- Dovecot uses Maildir format (not mbox), so if you install ISPConfig on the server, please make sure you enable Maildir under Management -> Server -> Settings -> Email. ISPConfig will then do the necessary configuration. ----
Since I'm ssh'd in to the box and X isn't installed, what's the CLI to accomplish this?
Thanks in advance, -Ray
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 03:28:28PM -0400, Ray Leventhal enlightened us:
I'm following a how-to for ISPConfig using CentOS5.1 and have run into the following instruction:
Dovecot uses Maildir format (not mbox), so if you install ISPConfig on the server, please make sure you enable Maildir under Management -> Server -> Settings -> Email. ISPConfig will then do the necessary configuration.
Since I'm ssh'd in to the box and X isn't installed, what's the CLI to accomplish this?
You'll probably want to ask the ISPConfig folks.
Matt
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Dovecot uses Maildir format (not mbox), so if you install ISPConfig on the server, please make sure you enable Maildir under Management -> Server -> Settings -> Email. ISPConfig will then do the necessary configuration.
Since I'm ssh'd in to the box and X isn't installed, what's the CLI to accomplish this?
You'll probably want to ask the ISPConfig folks.
Matt
If it were an ISPConfig question, I would...I simply was asking what the matching command line was for a corresponding action in X. Please let me know if I'm wrong, but this isn't OT, nor is it ISPConfig related.
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 03:41:48PM -0400, Ray Leventhal enlightened us:
Dovecot uses Maildir format (not mbox), so if you install ISPConfig on the server, please make sure you enable Maildir under Management -> Server -> Settings -> Email. ISPConfig will then do the necessary configuration.
Since I'm ssh'd in to the box and X isn't installed, what's the CLI to accomplish this?
You'll probably want to ask the ISPConfig folks.
Matt
If it were an ISPConfig question, I would...I simply was asking what the matching command line was for a corresponding action in X. Please let me know if I'm wrong, but this isn't OT, nor is it ISPConfig related.
Management -> Server -> Settings -> Email is most likely an ISPConfig thing, since I don't recall ever seeing that in a CentOS menu anywhere. So without knowing what that is doing, we can't tell you what commands you might run over SSH to make the equivalent changes.
Most likely it involves changing the configuration file for your MTA (Postfix, exim, sendmail) - but again, we don't know what that is, so we can't tell you.
There's not going to be one magic command you can run to "enable Maildir" on your server.
Matt
Ray Leventhal wrote:
Dovecot uses Maildir format (not mbox), so if you install ISPConfig on the server, please make sure you enable Maildir under Management -> Server -> Settings -> Email. ISPConfig will then do the necessary configuration.
Since I'm ssh'd in to the box and X isn't installed, what's the CLI to accomplish this?
You'll probably want to ask the ISPConfig folks.
Matt
If it were an ISPConfig question, I would...I simply was asking what the matching command line was for a corresponding action in X. Please let me know if I'm wrong, but this isn't OT, nor is it ISPConfig related.
what is the question then? is it how to configure dovecot to use maildir or how to configure the MTA (postfix, sendmail, ...) to deliver to maildir or how to configure the MDA (maildrop, procmail, ...) to deliver to maildir?
if it's to configure dovecot to use maildir instead of mbox, then the dovecot list and docs are a better place. the short answer is something like mail_location = maildir:/var/Mail/domains/%d/%n/Maildir in dovecot.conf. but we cannot reproduce dovecot documentation here.
but you'd better have the MTA or MDA deliver to the same place. the easy way is to use dovecot LDA as your delivery agent.
Matt Hyclak wrote:
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 03:28:28PM -0400, Ray Leventhal enlightened us:
I'm following a how-to for ISPConfig using CentOS5.1 and have run into the following instruction:
Dovecot uses Maildir format (not mbox), so if you install ISPConfig on the server, please make sure you enable Maildir under Management -> Server -> Settings -> Email. ISPConfig will then do the necessary configuration.
Since I'm ssh'd in to the box and X isn't installed, what's the CLI to accomplish this?
You'll probably want to ask the ISPConfig folks.
indeed. That said: - dovecot supports mbox as well. - what is the benefit of a gui when one uses ssh... ?
On Friday, June 13, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Ray Leventhal wrote:
Hi all,
I'm following a how-to for ISPConfig using CentOS5.1 and have run into the following instruction:
Dovecot uses Maildir format (not mbox), so if you install ISPConfig on the server, please make sure you enable Maildir under Management -> Server -> Settings -> Email. ISPConfig will then do the necessary configuration.
Since I'm ssh'd in to the box and X isn't installed, what's the CLI to accomplish this?
# vi /etc/dovecot.conf
See: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix
Or: http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir
When all else fails, read the instructions.
Steve
Thanks for the answers, pointers and help.
Haste makes not only waste, but exposes inexperience, as it has done here. (my own, of course)
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