This because you have a very common misconfiguration, which is that your
mail_home and mail_location are pointing to same directory, and that lead into
this problem.
Solution is of course to use:
mail_home = /var/mail/vmail/%d/%n
mail_location = maildir:~/Mail
Aki
> On 21 March 2019 16:48 Esteban L via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Config infos below.
>
> Short version, I am getting this weird anomaly on my main email
> account. Such that, "dovecot.sieve" is showing up as a mailbox in my
> various email clients (e.g. k-9 (mobile), and Evolution).
>
> I have tried deleting the "rogue folder" with doveadm, but it just
> returns.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions where I can track this down.
>
> dovecot --version
> 2.2.27
>
> dovecot -n
>
> # 2.2.27 (c0f36b0): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # Pigeonhole version 0.4.16 (fed8554)
> # OS: Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 x86_64 Debian 9.8 ext4
> auth_debug = yes
> auth_debug_passwords = yes
> auth_mechanisms = plain login
> auth_verbose = yes
> auth_verbose_passwords = yes
> mail_debug = yes
> mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/vmail/%d/%n
> mail_plugins = " quota"
> mail_privileged_group = vmail
> managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
> managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-
> character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational
> regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment
> mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext
> namespace inbox {
> inbox = yes
> location =
> mailbox Archive {
> auto = subscribe
> special_use = \Archive
> }
> mailbox Drafts {
> auto = subscribe
> special_use = \Drafts
> }
> mailbox Junk {
> auto = subscribe
> special_use = \Junk
> }
> mailbox Sent {
> special_use = \Sent
> }
> mailbox "Sent Messages" {
> special_use = \Sent
> }
> mailbox Trash {
> auto = subscribe
> special_use = \Trash
>
>
> }
> prefix =
> }
> passdb {
> args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
> driver = sql
> }
> plugin {
> quota = maildir:User quota
> quota_grace = 10%%
> quota_rule = *:storage=10G
> quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+1G
> quota_status_overquota = 552 5.2.2 Mailbox is full
> quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u
> quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u
> sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
> sieve_after = /etc/dovecot/sieve/spamfilter.sieve
> sieve_dir = ~/sieve
> }
>
> protocols = " imap lmtp sieve"
> service auth {
> unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
> group = postfix
> mode = 0666
> user = postfix
> }
> }
> service imap-login {
> inet_listener imaps {
> port = 993
> ssl = yes
> }
> }
> service lmtp {
> unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp {
> group = postfix
> mode = 0600
> user = postfix
> }
> }
> ssl = required
> ssl_cert = </etc/letsencrypt/live/little-beak.com/fullchain.pem
> ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it
> userdb {
> args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
> driver = sql
> }
> verbose_ssl = yes
> protocol lmtp {
> mail_plugins = " quota sieve"
> postmaster_address = este...@little-beak.com
> }
> protocol lda {
> mail_plugins = " quota sieve"
> }
> protocol imap {
> mail_plugins = " quota imap_quota"
> }
