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 at domain, same as %u if there's no domain > # %d - domain part in user at 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 -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263