Hi,

So, I tried to change mbox to maildir.. that sounds to be OK for the changes... I can create some folders and subfolders. The problem is that I cannot see any emails arriving into my mailbox

I am using sendmail

I choose the lmtp service for that and I have into Dovecot

Maildir : mail_location = maildir:/var/spool3/mail/%u:LAYOUT=fs

   service lmtp {
   unix_listener /var/spool/mail/dovecot-lmtp {
        mode = 0600
        user = mail
        group = mail
      }
      inet_listener lmtp {
        address = ::1, 127.0.0.1

      }
   }


into *sendmail.mc*.. I have :

 * FEATURE(`local_lmtp',`[IPC]',`FILE /var/spool/mail/dovecot-lmtp')dnl

But if I add : Feature(dovecot) or Feature( local_lmtp)   it doesn't compile..

m4:/etc/mail/sendmail.mc:154: cannot open 
`/usr/share/sendmail-cf/mailer/dovecot.m4': No such file or directory

So, how can explain that any emails coming into /var/spool/mail has to be sent to Dovecot ??

Thanks and regards


Le 16/07/2021 à 10:44, Aki Tuomi a écrit :
On 16/07/2021 11:41 Stephane Magnier <steph.mag...@netcourrier.com> wrote:


Hi,
Still looking for the way to create folders and sub folders..
Today, I am using "mbox", which apparently doesn't work for this ? correct ?
mbox has very limited support for folders.

So, I would probably need to use maildir.. ( 
https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/mail_location/Maildir/ ]
Today, what I am using is :mbox,which is gather all the mailboxes of user 1, 
user 2 in one folder... like : mbox:/var/spool2/mail/%u
1) I suppose, that If I am using "mbox" with.. : LAYOUT=fs, I won't get these 
folders and subfolders ? - Correct ?

2) Instead of having : "maildir:~/Maildir " which, I suppose got eachuser 
folder into their own home directory .. correct ? Can I have : 
maildir:/var/spool2/mail/%u?
yes.

( I would prefer to gather all users' mailbox into one folder like 
/var/spool2/mail/ )
3) if so, mbox:/var/spool2/mail/%u:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u => can become : 
maildir:/var/spool2/mail/%u:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u

yes. And while you're doing this, you might as well start using lda or lmtp and 
drop the INBOX parameter. There is no need to keep INBOX in /var/spool/mail/%u 
unless your users expect direct access?

What do you think ?... before trying and breaking everything :-)... if so, I 
will be killed

Thanks and regards

Aki

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