With configuration "mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir", incoming mails are
always saved to /var/mail/%u , which are invisible to Thunderbird.
How do I configure Dovecot to save incoming mails to ~/Maildir/cur/ and
~/Maildir/new/ ?
Thank you in advance!
context:
I replaced my host recently.
Version 2.3.13 running in the old host used to correctly save incoming mails to
~/Maildir.
I copied the files in /home/user1/Maildir/ Dovecot 2.3.13 managed to my new
host where the new Dovecot 2.3.19.1 runs.
Thunderbird now correctly displays files in /home/user1/Maildir/cur/ in the new
server as inbox mails, but obviously it can not see file /var/mail/user1 in the
new server.
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Output of "dovecot -n" follows.
# 2.3.19.1 (9b53102964): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# Pigeonhole version 0.5.19 (4eae2f79)
# OS: Linux 6.1.0-22-amd64 x86_64 Debian 12.7
# Hostname: example
auth_mechanisms = plain login
disable_plaintext_auth = no
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
mail_privileged_group = mail
namespace inbox {
inbox = yes
location =
mailbox Drafts {
special_use = \Drafts
}
mailbox Junk {
special_use = \Junk
}
mailbox Sent {
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox "Sent Messages" {
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox Trash {
special_use = \Trash
}
prefix =
}
passdb {
driver = pam
}
protocols = " imap"
service auth {
unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
group = postfix
mode = 0660
user = postfix
}
}
service imap-login {
inet_listener imap {
port = 143
}
}
ssl = required
ssl_cert = </etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem
ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it
ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it
userdb {
driver = passwd
}
========
Output of "ls -la /home/user1/Maildir/" in my new host follows.
total 112
drwx------ 9 user1 user1 4096 Oct 26 23:39 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 user1 user1 4096 Oct 26 23:39 ..
drwx------ 5 user1 user1 4096 Oct 26 22:18 .Drafts
drwx------ 5 user1 user1 4096 Oct 29 00:11 .Sent
drwx------ 5 user1 user1 4096 Oct 26 23:39 .Templates
drwx------ 5 user1 user1 4096 Oct 29 00:12 .Trash
drwx------ 2 user1 user1 4096 Oct 26 21:14 cur
-rw------- 1 user1 user1 609 Oct 26 20:15 dovecot-uidlist
-rw------- 1 user1 user1 8 Nov 13 2023 dovecot-uidvalidity
-r--r--r-- 1 user1 user1 0 Oct 15 2022 dovecot-uidvalidity.634a88ee
-rw------- 1 user1 user1 600 Oct 18 16:39 dovecot.index
-rw------- 1 user1 user1 13296 Oct 26 21:23 dovecot.index.cache
-rw------- 1 user1 user1 26084 Oct 26 21:14 dovecot.index.log
-rw------- 1 user1 user1 744 Oct 22 18:32 dovecot.list.index
-rw------- 1 user1 user1 7232 Oct 29 00:12 dovecot.list.index.log
-rw------- 1 user1 user1 96 Nov 13 2023 dovecot.mailbox.log
drwx------ 2 user1 user1 4096 Oct 26 20:15 new
-rw------- 1 user1 user1 33 Nov 13 2023 subscriptions
drwx------ 2 user1 user1 4096 Oct 25 21:32 tmp
====
Output of "ls -l /var/mail" follows.
total 288
-rw------- 1 user1 mail 35086 Oct 29 18:02 user1
-rw------- 1 daemon mail 36244 Oct 28 12:32 daemon
-rw------- 1 debian mail 36223 Oct 26 21:32 debian
-rw------- 1 dovecot mail 36248 Oct 28 19:18 dovecot
-rw------- 1 games mail 36223 Oct 27 12:38 games
-rw------- 1 news mail 36237 Oct 27 13:52 news
-rw------- 1 nobody mail 36266 Oct 27 15:31 nobody
-rw------- 1 sshd mail 36195 Oct 29 12:36 sshd
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