[Dovecot] Making dovecot and postfix play together
I am encountering 'transport problems' in postfix, and I can't tie them down. I'm beginning to wonder whether I have conflicting settings in the various parts of the mail server. I have been advised separately by a number of people, so it is entirely possible. I am, therefore, attempting to check every detail of my setup.
I was advised to put 'MAIL=/home/$USER/MailDir:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/$USER' into /etc/profile 'because that's the way that dovecot likes it'. Is this correct? I'm using 0.99.14 on Fedora Core 4.
Dovecot does appear to be working correctly. I can drag messages to the mailboxes. The problem appears to be in postfix. Fetchmail can download the messages, but they are sticking in postfix's queue. I'm still working on that, but would like confirmation that I was right to follow the advice given above.
Anne
Anne Wilson <cannewilson@tiscali.co.uk>:
Hi Anne,
I too am on FC4 (rel 2) and Dovecot 0.99. I have the environment variable of MAIL set to MAIL=/var/spool/mail/$USER as is the default in /etc/profile (in other words, I didn't change it from the initial OS load). In /etc/dovecot.conf, I have "default_mail_env = maildir:~/mail" where mail is actually a mail directory (the name is a artifact of a previous IMAP implementation). That's it. Postfix 2.1.5 works with that configuration for me.
Hope this helps, Channing
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On Wednesday 25 Jan 2006 20:03, Channing wrote:
Thanks for the reply. I does help, in that it gives me something to compare with, thanks. The infuriating thing is that I had this working before I set up fetchmail, then I lost it. I've just found some lines of main.cf to be missing - I had spells of the mouse going beserk a couple of days ago, and some strange things happened then, so I think that the file became damaged at that time. Hopefully I've found everything now.
Thanks again
Anne
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Anne Wilson wrote:
Well, putting Dovecot beside there will be no other program that handles this type of MAIL= setting, hence, if you have at least one program reading that environment variable (may be postfix :), you have misconfigured it.
I would keep my hands off MAIL=, but configure Dovecot by its .conf file (default_mail_env). This, however, means that you must maintain redundant data.
Bye,
-- Steffen Kaiser
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