On Jun 14, 2012, at 8:37 PM, Tim Legg wrote:
> This is very similar to a thread I posted on Ubuntu Forums a week ago that
> hasn't been resolved:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2001283
>
> This is my configuration as of today, but this particular e-mail system is
> not enabled by my router yet; no port traffic is directed to this machine
> so I have to test via telnet.
> http://www.timothylegg.com/master.cf.txt
> http://www.timothylegg.com/main.cf.txt
>
>
> I have been following a HOWTO on the Ubuntu Site,
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PostfixBasicSetupHowto
>
> to help me setup my server correctly, and also help me understand exactly
> how postfix works. The documentation at postfix.org has already been
> helpful for me.
>
> This HOWTO includes setting up Courier, so there is the expectation of
> using the Maildir format. For 15 years, I have used mbox, but I have
> decided to migrate.
>
> There is a section that states
>
> "Instruct Postfix to use Maildirs instead of Mboxes: "
>
> % sudo postconf -e "home_mailbox = Maildir/"
>
> And I have done that, however when I telnet to my server to test this, I
> get a file called Maildir instead of Maildir/
> This file is of zero length.
>
> # postconf home_mailbox
> home_mailbox = Maildir/
>
> Here, it appears to be correct.
>
> But in the user's directory, I get this:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 fmaster fmaster 3486 Apr 3 10:58 .bashrc
> -rw------- 1 fmaster fmaster 0 Jun 10 17:19 Maildir
> -rw-r--r-- 1 fmaster fmaster 675 Apr 3 10:58 .profile
Greetings,
Not sure exactly what your question is. You need to post more of your config,
postconf -n
Here is a sample of an unbutu 12 dovecot users directory. Maildir is correct.
root@smtp5:/home/petergriffin# cd Maildir
root@smtp5:/home/petergriffin/Maildir# ls -l
total 80
drwx------ 2 petergriffin petergriffin 4096 Mar 30 12:59 cur
-rw------- 1 petergriffin petergriffin 664 Mar 25 11:35 dovecot.index
-rw------- 1 petergriffin petergriffin 26624 Mar 30 12:59 dovecot.index.cache
-rw------- 1 petergriffin petergriffin 11700 Mar 30 13:00 dovecot.index.log
-rw------- 1 petergriffin petergriffin 30 Mar 17 23:10 dovecot-keywords
-rw------- 1 petergriffin petergriffin 48 Mar 17 11:08 dovecot.mailbox.log
-rw------- 1 petergriffin petergriffin 933 Mar 30 12:59 dovecot-uidlist
-rw------- 1 petergriffin petergriffin 8 Mar 17 11:08 dovecot-uidvalidity
-r--r--r-- 1 petergriffin petergriffin 0 Mar 16 10:32
dovecot-uidvalidity.4f634ef7
drwx------ 2 petergriffin petergriffin 4096 Mar 30 12:59 new
-rw------- 1 petergriffin petergriffin 11 Mar 17 11:08 subscriptions
drwx------ 2 petergriffin petergriffin 4096 Mar 30 12:59 tmp
** ubuntu by default places postfix in a chrooted environment. mailbox delivery
in unbuntu is set like this for dovecot;
mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -c
/etc/dovecot/conf.d/01-mail-stack-delivery.conf -m "${EXTENSION}"
