On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:54:42 -0400 "Carlos Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I built a new Postfix server this weekend and I noticed that even
>though I specified Maildir style mailboxes, for some reason I
>continuously get a file in a users home directory called "mbox". I am
>trying to avoid this file being created. It was my understanding that
>if you specify Maildir/ style mailboxes, it will dump all email in a
>directory on that users home folder, no?
>
>Here is I see and also the output of postconf -n
>
>email:~# cd /home/carlos/
>email:/home/carlos# ls -l
>total 8
>drwx------ 5 carlos users 4096 2008-08-15 17:49 Maildir
>-rw------- 1 carlos users 500 2008-08-17 15:44 mbox
>
>
>alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
>alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
>append_dot_mydomain = no
>biff = no
>config_directory = /etc/postfix
>home_mailbox = Maildir/
>inet_interfaces = all
>mailbox_size_limit = 0
>mydestination = $myhostname, $mydomain, localhost.$mydomain, localhost
>myhostname = email.example.net
>mynetworks = 10.1.0.0/16, 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128
>myorigin = example.net
>readme_directory = no
>recipient_delimiter = +
>relayhost =
>smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtp_scache
>smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU)
>smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
>smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
>smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtpd_scache
>smtpd_use_tls = yes
>
>Why do I this mbox file under my users home directory and is it
>possible to avoid this file generation and just have all my email
>queue up in /home/$user?
>--
>Man your battle stations...
What IMAP server are you using. I have Dovecot, and ammend
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf (on Debian)
and configure mail_location variable. Which will probably help you!
Regards
Daryl
