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Naughtyus
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 Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 4:16 am Post subject: Help with courier-imap and /var/mail |
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I'm having problems with my e-mail server. It can send and receive mail without errors. The only problem is that mail sent to me (my server) isn't showing up in the users ~/.maildir , only in /var/mail/ .
I'm using courier-imap , and postfix. Any suggestions would be appreciated. |
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devon
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 4:23 am Post subject: |
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| How is Postfix configured? In particular, "DELIVERY TO MAILBOX" in /etc/postfix/mail.cf. |
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Naughtyus
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 4:40 am Post subject: |
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 Thanks for the pointer on where to look. I had to comment a line that told it to use cyrus instead of courier. |
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labrador
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2003 1:52 pm Post subject: More details? |
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I find the documentation in the postfix comments is sparse.
I don't understand what you set to get imap-courier to work with
/var/spool/mail type of mailbox folders.
This is what I have in postfix's main.cf:
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mail_spool_directory = /var/spool/mail
#mailbox_transport = cyrus
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So if you didn't use cyrus, did you just type in "courier" or what?
Where do you see the possible values for this field? |
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labrador
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2003 7:48 pm Post subject: To make this more clear... |
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I want the opposite of the problem as originally stated.
I want email to arrive at /var/spool/mail and I want courier-imap
to be able to read it from there. I've tested authentication and
this is working OK. Now I just need it to access the mail
folder under /var/spool/mail , just as uw-imap did for me in
the past.
Can anyone offer some clues as to how courier-imap can work without using the home style of mailbox? |
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devon
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2003 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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From http://www.courier-mta.org/intro.html
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However, it is also important to note what Courier does not have or will not support:
* Support for mbox mailboxes in the POP3, IMAP, and webmail components. They support maildirs only. There are plenty of existing servers out there that read mbox mailboxes. |
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labrador
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 11:18 am Post subject: Settling with uw-imap for the present |
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I'm settling with uw-imap for the present, which is a little old.
Bincimap is unstable. Cryus works with what looks to be a tree of
user accounts, and many of them require use of a database.
I think I've been through all of the possibilities provided in gentoo packages, but if there are any specific suggestions of an IMAP server that supports recent standards (V4), works with /var/spool/mail and doesn't
require a database backend, I'd like to see their names. |
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