On Thu, 24 Dec 2009, Spyros Tsiolis wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I happen to try to make XMail work with dovecot these days.
> 
> I don't know if Dovecot is of any interested to you.
> However, my choice was this because I've been using XMail for nine years now 
> and
> I am pretty happy with it and don't want to drop it under any circumstances..
> 
> So here goes what little I know so far about XMail and Dovecot.
> 
> Yes, XMail works like a charm with dovecot (that's what people in this list 
> keep telling
> me) and I tried it myself and it seems that it interfaces fully with XMail.
> 
> Two key-steps (AFAIK) :
> 
> 1. cd to /etc/dovecot.conf
>     copy the original dovecot.conf file (cp dovecot-example.conf dovecot.conf)
>     edit dovecot.conf and find the line that says :
> 
> #mail_location =
> 
> uncomment the starting hash (#) or copy it and uncomment the copied line, just
> to keep the original untouched)
> and you change it to the following :
> 
> mail_location = maildir:/var/MailRoot/domains/%d/%n/Maildir
> 
> "%d" is for domain names (just the domain names: like example.com)
> and "%n" is for mail usernames. So from what you see, you keep the
> XMail structure. And _this_ is what I love about Dovecot at the moment.

Oh OK, it seemed strange it didn't support multi-domains.


- Davide

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