[CentOS] Dovecot under CentOS-6

Tue Jan 24 15:21:57 UTC 2012
Craig White <craig.white at ttiltd.com>

On Jan 23, 2012, at 6:25 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> I've been running dovecot on a CentOS-5.7 server.
> Now I'm moving over to another server running CentOS-6.2.
> I thought I was running dovecot on the new server,
> but in fact there was an error during the setup,
> with the result that incoming mail finished up in /var/spool/mail/
> rather than in ~/Maildir , where I wanted it to go.
> 
> Now I'm wondering if there is some way
> that I can re-direct the mail in /var/spool/mail/<mymbox>
> so that it goes through the system as though it were just arriving?
> I mean, so that it gets distributed into the correct folders
> under ~/Maildir , as specified in .procmailrc .
> 
> Any suggestions gratefully received.
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easiest way to handle is to copy the files to your client computer, open them with your normal mail client and move them into folders (assuming your ~/Maildir is IMAP). If there is only 1 or 2 users, this is much easier.

Craig