On Dec 1, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Li Wei Nan wrote:
I'm now using dovecot with a POP3&SMTP server called JAMES. I want
dovecot and james to share the email location. Both dovecot and
james can store email in mbox format. However, the james will only
store mbox mail repo in a fixed dir, such as: /var/mail/
And it will naming each user's mbox repo by its name, such as /var/
mail/tom or /var/mail/peter, etc. So I have to config dovecot for it
to fit the situation. So I config dovecot as:
mail_location = mbox:/var/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
The inbox get worked now, dovecot can read the mbox file created by
james correctly. However, dovecot make each user's Trash, Sent in
same directory: /var/mail. So it means all the user just have one
Trash, Sent. I've read the Wiki carefully and tried some different
config and still cannot get it work.
You'll have to give a per-user directory where Dovecot can store the mails. Since POP3 supports only one mailbox, James doesn't need to know about this directory. You could use for example:
mail_location = mbox:/var/mail/folders/%u:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
- Let dovecot read everyone's inbox at: /var/mail/%u (it's a mbox
file, not dir)
- Let dovecot store everyone's Trash, Sent in /var/mail/%u/mail
/var/mail/%u is a file, you can't use it as a directory.
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