I just installed Dovecot on Debian and everyting seems to be working fine except for the fact that it can't seem to find my mails when I log in. All my mails are stored in the file ~/mail/Inbox. In the dovecot.conf file I put: default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u and it's not working. What is the part: mbox:~/mail/ for ? and what is the part: INBOX=/var/mail/%u for ? I read the documentation but I don't understand. Can anyone help me ?
Hi Sebastien! Sebastien wrote:> I just installed Dovecot on Debian and everyting seems to be working > fine except for the fact that it can't seem to find my mails when I log > in. All my mails are stored in the file ~/mail/Inbox. In the > dovecot.conf file I put: > > default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u and it's not working. > > What is the part: mbox:~/mail/ for ? > and what is the part: INBOX=/var/mail/%u for ? > I read the documentation but I don't understand. Can anyone help me ?I'm struggling with my dovecot config at this very minute as well! From my understanding, if your mail is stored in an mbox called ~/mail/Inbox, then you want: default_mail_env = mbox:%h/mail/Inbox Are you sure that your mail isn't actually stored as a Maildir instead of an mbox? In other words do ~/mail/Inbox/new ~/mail/Inbox/cur etc. exist? If so you want to replace mbox: with maildir: The purpose of the INBOX= section is to allow dovecot to look in an alternative location for newly arrived mail, I think. So your MTA could deliver mail to /var/mail/username, but exising mail would be stored in ~/mail for example. Try some of my suggestions above, as I mentioned I'm still learning dovecot myself at the moment. Andrew
On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 06:30, Sebastien wrote:> I just installed Dovecot on Debian and everyting seems to be working > fine except for the fact that it can't seem to find my mails when I log > in. All my mails are stored in the file ~/mail/Inbox. In the > dovecot.conf file I put: > > default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u and it's not working. > > What is the part: mbox:~/mail/ for ?It's the base directory where all your IMAP folders exist. Dovecot also writes it's index files under it.> and what is the part: INBOX=/var/mail/%u for ?It's the location for INBOX mailbox - the default mailbox where new mails are sent to. In your case this would be the ~/mail/Inbox file. So you'd want: default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=%h/mail/Inbox -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20040726/5e9d23b2/attachment-0001.bin>