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On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, jo land wrote:
I use 143 Imap to connect which i have tested with telnet and was able to
login. But if i select the inbox with telnet it returns "0 EXISTS"
like so:
telnet 192.168.1.13 143
Trying 192.168.1.13...
Connected to sub.domain.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
oper2 select INBOX
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)]
Flags permitted.
* 0 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1513093097] UIDs valid
* OK [UIDNEXT 1] Predicted next UID
* OK [NOMODSEQ] No permanent modsequences
oper2 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed.
Mail location set to: /var/mail/
Well, /var/mail typically contains a bunch of mbox files, one per local
users. They are considered an INBOX for each user.
You have configured this for Dovecot:
https://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/mbox
Each user, that logs in successfully, uses the same files in /var/mail as
mbox storage. The "INBOX" is empty, because there does not exist
"/var/mail/inbox", I guess. See 2nd example.
If you see /var/mail/username, you should at least configure 1st example:
# %u is replaced with the username that logs in
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
Note the %u and ~ and make sure, each user has an unique home directory.
You could replace ~ with some specific user-specific path using %u as
well.
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Steffen Kaiser
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