Hello again,
I didn't fully read the section in the documentation about using the mbox
format. There is a setting, mail_inbox_path = /var/mail/%{user} to specify
the iNBOX location for mails that are stored in /var/mail.
After setting mail_inbox_path I did initially have an issue about dovecot
being able to write dotlock files, which was noted in the documentation. I
was able to fix by adding users to the group "mail".
I am using these settings in the new server now:
mail_driver = mbox
mail_path = ~/mail
mail_inbox_path = /var/mail/%{user}
mail_index_path = ~/mail/index
mail_control_path = ~/mail/control
On Dec 1, 2025, at 10:18AM, Bill Steinberg via dovecot
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
I'm attempting to upgrade a mbox format based dovecot server to the
latest
2.4.1 on Fedora release 43. I am using sendmail at the MTA. I have
provided a synopsis of my 2.4.1 dovecot config below. The dovecot
server
I'm attempting to upgrade is running dovecot 2.3.21 on Fedora 37.
In the 2.3.21 setup all mbox based folders are at the top level in the
user's ~/mail location For example Sent, Trash, Drafts, ...
In dovecot 2.4.1 this setting no longer works: "mail_location =
mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u",so when a client connects to the
dovecot
server their sendmail based mbox /var/mail isn't visible.
Additionally mbox folders directly under a user's ~/mail iike Sent,
Trash,
Drafts are not visible either.
The new 2.4.1 dovecot server creates a folder named "inbox" under
~/mail
as well as an .imap directory which contains directories that appear
to
correspond to the folders at the top level along with other dovecot
based
files.
Can you describe how I would make the seamail delivered mail in
/var/spool
as well as a users top level mbox folders accessible in the new
dovecot
mbox structures?
Thanks in advance for any help,
-Bill
======================================
Dovecot config
======================================
dovecot_config_version = 2.4.1
dovecot_storage_version = 2.4.1
protocols {
imap = yes
lmtp = yes
}
mail_driver = mbox
mail_home = /home/%{user}
mail_path = ~/mail
mbox_write_locks = fcntl
namespace inbox {
inbox = yes
separator = /
}
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