setup mail server

[Ed Holden]

Ben,

Yeah, I was using it for a few hundred mailboxes, so perhaps the volume 
was what made it crash.  But I eally wanted it to work, because it was 
fast and simple to configure.  As an example: to solve your problem, you 
can customize where everything is located.  Modify the dovecot.conf file 
with a line like this:

  default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/%h/

This line will make Dovecot look for the mailmoxes under ~/mail (which I 
prefer because I also use PINE on this system, and this makes PINE act 
the same as IMAP), and the Inbox is in the usual mail spools directory 
at /var/spool/mail.  But the index files get put under the home 
directory, where they're kept in a .imap directory.  Separates them from 
the mailboxes.  Since you only have about a dozen mailboxes it shouldn't 
be too hard to convert them.

-Ed

:: Ed Holden
:: Administrator, Research Information Systems
:: McLean Hospital
:: Tel: (617) 855-2822
:: Web: http://research.mclean.org/ris


Ben Steeves wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 10:39, Ed Holden wrote:
> 
> 
>>Point is, Dovecot crashed on me a few times.  I'm sure it will develop 
>>into a great mail daemon (the philosopy behind it s design is spot on), 
>>and perhaps the problem with it was Red Hat's specific build and not the 
>>software itself (a lot of people seem to love it).  But I ended up 
>>switching back to using Qpopper, though I'm sure that ipop3d would have 
>>been fine.
> 
> 
> Just to provide another perspective, I've been using Dovecot for about
> six months and it hasn't crashed once.  Of course, I'm only using it in
> a 'toy' capacity -- about a dozen mailboxes or so.  I'm quite impressed
> with it; my only complaint is that Squirrelmail can see the index files;
> if it were up to me, the IMAP server would hide them.
> 


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