Dovecot

[Mike Chambers]

Had to reinstall my server using Fedora 29, and configuring local mail,
via dovecot, I forget where to set the mail_location path to? ~/Maildir
doesn't give off errors, but I seem to currently not get any mail.  I
thought /var/mail/ was the main root mail dir for users but I can't get
dovecot not to error pointing to it, such as /var/mail/%u or whatever.

Any ideas if that makese any sense? LOL

[Tom Horsley]

On Sun, 23 Dec 2018 12:04:14 -0600
Mike Chambers wrote:
> Any ideas if that makese any sense? LOL

Well, in my /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf

I have mail_location set like this:

mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir

Which stashes mail in my home directory where I recover
it when I gen a new OS since I keep the old home
directory.

[SOLVED] Dovecot

[Mike Chambers]

On Sun, 2018-12-23 at 12:04 -0600, Mike Chambers wrote:
> Had to reinstall my server using Fedora 29, and configuring local
> mail,
> via dovecot, I forget where to set the mail_location path to?
> ~/Maildir
> doesn't give off errors, but I seem to currently not get any mail.  I
> thought /var/mail/ was the main root mail dir for users but I can't
> get
> dovecot not to error pointing to it, such as /var/mail/%u or
> whatever.
>
> Any ideas if that makese any sense? LOL

The fix was 1 things..

1 - mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

2 - chmod 0600 /var/mail/*

Then I finally started getting my email.  Thought there was a
permissions issue but couldn't nail it down until I started checking
more maillogs in more detail.

Works now though, but thanks.

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 23 December 2018, Mike Chambers sent:
> I thought /var/mail/ was the main root mail dir for users but I can't
> get dovecot not to error pointing to it, such as /var/mail/%u or
> whatever.

/var/spool/mail/username or /var/mail/username (one symlinks to the
other, these days), is where the system delivers mail to that user.

When a user gets their mail, it may move into a /home/username/mail or
/home/username/Maildir location.  Perhaps all their mail may end up in
their homespace, or just the messages that they move out of their inbox
(it depends on how they configure things).