Why is dovecot using Maildir and not IMAP. Or is it using even using
Maildir at all?
Currently I'm using mailman, postfix and dovecot to manage a mailing
list. Mail is sent to [email protected] which the "mail server
delivery agent stack provided by Ubuntu server team" of dovecot-postfix
handles fine, keeping it locally, so far as it goes. The mail ends up
in /home/thufir/Maildir, which the balsa mail client reads fine, as it
handles Maildir fine.
However, I would like to use dovecot-imapd which is installed. However,
it's not clear quite how to switch over to IMAP. I see:
root@dur:~#
root@dur:~# nl /usr/share/dovecot/protocols.d/imapd.protocol
1 protocols = $protocols imap
root@dur:~#
root@dur:~# grep protocol /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# Enable installed
protocols !include_try /usr/share/dovecot/protocols.d/*.protocol
root@dur:~#
which indicates to me that IMAP is configured. So, why is mail showing
up using Maildir?
I'm looking at:
"Once you have chosen, amend the following line in the file
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:
protocols = pop3 pop3s imap imaps"
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Dovecot
Admittedly, I've not looked too closely into Dovecot man pages as I
don't want to get too deep into the weeds on that if it's not even
Dovecot I need to configure. I'm assuming that it's dovecot which is
using Maildir:
root@dur:/etc/postfix#
root@dur:/etc/postfix# grep dovecot main.cf
smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
smtpd_sasl_path = private/dovecot-auth
mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -c
/etc/dovecot/conf.d/01-mail-stack-delivery.conf -m "${EXTENSION}"
root@dur:/etc/postfix#
Can I force dovecot to only ever use IMAP and never use anything else?
Is it maybe postfix which is using Maildir, and this is why my mail
shows up as Maildir type mail?
thanks,
Thufir
thufir@dur:~$
thufir@dur:~$ head .balsa/config -n 20
[mailbox-Inbox]
Path=/var/mail/thufir
Type=LibBalsaMailboxMbox
Name=Inbox
[mailbox-Outbox]
Path=/home/thufir/Maildir/outbox
Type=LibBalsaMailboxMbox
Name=Outbox
[mailbox-Sentbox]
Path=/home/thufir/Maildir/sentbox
Type=LibBalsaMailboxMbox
Name=Sentbox
[mailbox-Draftbox]
Path=/home/thufir/Maildir/draftbox
Type=LibBalsaMailboxMbox
Name=Draftbox
thufir@dur:~$
