[Dovecot] redirecting temp email files to another directory

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Jan 18 07:14:09 EET 2009


Give me an example of what a temp filename looks like? Also post your  
dovecot -n output. Because there shouldn't be any temp files.

On Jan 17, 2009, at 8:10 PM, JANE CUA wrote:

> the temp files that is randomly created when the users accesses  
> their email.  I've only noticed this with the dovecot 1.1.7 with  
> squirrelmail server that I built.  I do not see the temp files  
> created in the /var/spool/mail with the old UW-IMAP + squirrelmail.
>
> The last time I couldn't delete email from squirrelmail was because  
> the /var/spool permission was 0700, I have to change it to 0770 to  
> allow mail group to create the temp files to delete emails...
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>
> Date: Saturday, January 17, 2009 5:03 pm
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] redirecting temp email files to another  
> directory
> To: Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot at dovecot.org>
>
>> On Jan 17, 2009, at 8:00 PM, JANE CUA wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,  Is is possible to redirect temp email files to
>> another folder
>>> like /tmp or somewhere else, instead of having it in the same
>> /var/
>>> spool where the mbox is?
>>
>> What "temp email files"?
>>
>>



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