On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 4:26 PM, <peng...@sepserver.net> wrote: > I just installed postfix on Debian6. It's humming along and I am > sending mail from it. I noticed that there is a folder /root/Mail > although there is no mail in it yet. Also there seems to be nothing at > all in /var/mail/. Doesn't Postfix create postmas...@mydomain.com by > default? I am using mutt like this: > mutt -f postmas...@mydomain.com > but mutt is telling me no directory exists and I should have mutt > create the directory. I did not see anything in mysql yet either as > far as email addresses. Do I need to create the boxes manually? If so > how would I do that? How do I know if I am using the vmail system or > mysql? > Thanks! >
There are some possibilities. For example, you can use Mailbox or Maildir. If you configured as the most common configuration, you may have a /Maildir directory created for each user that receives an e-mail, when it receives the first e-mail. Also, when using the simplest configuration, every user in the /etc/passwd file may receive e-mails... So, it depends on how you configure your postfix... You may take a look at the documentation for postfix, there are some examples you may learn a lot from. Try looking at http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html, at least. Fernando Maior
