Thanks Brian!!! Commenting out home_mailbox took care of the problem. I
appreciate the help -- Dean



On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 13:21 -0400, Brian Evans wrote:
> On 5/31/2013 12:51 PM, Dean Guenther wrote:
> > I suspect I'm just missing something when converting from the earlier
> > postfix to the newer postfix (and dovecot). Why am I getting these tmp
> > and new files under /home/user/mail?
> 
> This is a sign you are saving in maildir format.
> >
> > Its probably not related, but I noticed with my NFS4 mount that I can't
> > use dot locking. I had to use fcntl instead.
> >
> >
> > Here is what I've configured:
> >
> > # postconf -n
> > home_mailbox = mail/
> > mail_spool_directory = /var/spool/mail
> >
> [snipped for clarity]
> home_mailbox takes precidence over mail_spool_directory.  When either 
> has end with /, maildir is used.
> 
> > # dovecot -n
> > # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> > # OS: Linux 2.6.32-220.el6.i686 i686 CentOS release 6.2 (Final)
> >
> > mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
> >
> However your POP3/IMAP server is looking for mbox format.
> 
> Suggest removing, commenting out the home_mailbox parameter if you want 
> to use mbox to have local(8) save INBOX messages to /var/spool/mail.
> 
> Brian

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Dean Guenther                   Internet: [email protected]
Washington State University     Phone:    509 335-0433
Pullman, WA. 99164-1222         fax:      509 335-0540
Identity and Access Management & UNIX System Admin

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