[Dovecot] Dovecot and Mail.app

[James Andrews]

Hi Barry,

I'm not 100% sure really.  I am new to dovecot as well.  I am using  
the up2date rpm for RHLE3, as I just got this server running and  
didn't have a lot of time to run with the latest, so the version I  
use is a little older, but from what I understand mail_location uses  
the same syntax as default_mail_env.  When I tried not defining  
INBOX, it didn't work the way I wanted it too.  I don't know if the  
newer version is better at handling that or not.

James


On Dec 26, 2006, at 1:20 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On Dec 26, 2006, at 1:15 AM, James Andrews wrote:
>
>> default_mail_env = mbox:%h/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
>>
>> This is what I used to get Mail.app to work with dovecot.  Just  
>> modify the paths to match your system.  Keep your mail prefix  
>> empty in the Account settings.
>
> Hi James, thanks for the quick reply.
>
> I'm using maildir and my understanding (from reading dovecot.conf)  
> is that default_mail_env is replaced by mail_location.  My  
> mail_location setting is:
>
> mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
>
> I think I don't need to specify INBOX when using maildir, right?
>
> Again, thanks,
> - -Barry
>
>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin)
>
> iQCVAwUBRZC/HHEjvBPtnXfVAQK5SAP+OWBVUAeRrFtokYTSzWgr3VE2gn4r0WTk
> Yys30HhaQipPB733gQiQgvSIO5kuhQ83AG3BaJOMS8yuS3ivJka6gAFFjCZk7UqC
> E8HOQ+78aRVeWU7nK8t+VGmtdIcWHc9JeD9PDCgwAoNnELIEB21pTe1U+M8IOBne
> OErgpIeB98I=
> =7S9C
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----