[Dovecot] Configuration Question.

Tolga kartagis at kunduz.org
Sun Dec 17 11:08:06 UTC 2006


James Andrews wrote:
> Hi Everyone.
Hi,
>
> I have recently installed dovecot for the first time on a RHEL3
> server.  I have it working for the most part, but am a bit baffled by
> part of the configuration, something that I am sure I am just doing
> incorrectly.
>
> I can successfully access my normal mailbox which is in
> /var/spool/mail/username, but I also want to create mail folders, and
> that's the problem I am having.  I want the folders to live in
>
> ~/mail/
>
> I have tried
>
> default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u 
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u allows you to keep
mail in /var/spool/mail/username and folders in ~/mail

>
> and
>
> default_mail_env = maildir:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
You don't need this.
>
> What on earth am I doing wrong?  I'm sure it's something small that I
> just don't understand.
Just read above.
>
> Thanks
You're welcome
> James
Tolga
>
>
>


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