[Dovecot] POP3 download problem

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Jun 6 01:05:03 EEST 2005


On 3.6.2005, at 13:56, Eddie du Plessis wrote:

> USER test1
> +OK
> PASS 1234
> +OK Logged in.
> LIST
> +OK 0 messages:
> .
>
> And when I do a listing of the /var/spool/mail directory this is what 
> I see
> there:
>
> -rw-rw----   1 test1         mail  4.8K Jun  3 12:14 test1

Does this user have ~/mail directory (with "inbox" file in it)? It 
sounds like you've let Dovecot do autodetection for the mail location, 
and it guesses it wrong. Uncomment default_mail_env and set it to 
mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
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