[Dovecot] Re: [ismail] Re: using Dovecot

[Timo Sirainen]

On 24.6.2004, at 01:19, Steven Stern wrote:

>> I've never used dovecot, but I know that those directories aren't 
>> what IMAP servers generally expect when looking for a rootfolderpath.
>>
>> For example, courier is always 'INBOX', uw-imap is usually but not 
>> always 'mail', and sometimes it's just a blank string. My guess is 
>> that for you, it's one of those three. If your mail is in a 'mail' 
>> directory, I suggest just putting 'mail' and not '~/mail'.
>>
> I'm going to cross post this to the dovecot list in case someone there 
> has an
> idea. To bring those people up to speed: I'm evaluating ISMail
> (www.insidesystems.net) as a replacement for IMP.  I'm having problems
> configuring the IMAP settings to work with Dovecot.

You can configure Dovecot to put the mail anywhere you like by changing 
default_mail_env setting in config file. rootfolderpath should be empty 
always.

> If I set rootmailfolder to as "rootmailfolder=" with no argument, it 
> creates
>
>    .imap
>       INBOX
>           .customflags
>           .imap.index.data
>           .imap.index.tree
>           .imap.index
>           .imap.index.log
> then dies

Dies? See if there's error messages in log file (/var/log/mail.log 
maybe).
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