Not sure if this helps, this may be specific to my set up, but in the /etc/dovecot directory I have a file named "users" which lists every email address and their file locations. If not, there must be a config file somewhere so I'd look around.
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Matthias Andree <matthias.and...@gmx.de> wrote: > Am 28.07.2014 um 18:43 schrieb nobody73: >> Sending mail to u...@domain.of.mine i get a positive response from >> mail logs ... >> >> status=sent (delivered to maildir) >> >> these are permissions for mail spool: >> >> ls -la /var/mail/ >> total 12K >> drwxrwsrwx 2 root mail 4.0K Jul 27 22:41 . >> drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4.0K Jul 13 01:36 .. >> -rw------- 1 admin mail 0 Jul 27 14:53 admin >> -rw------- 1 root mail 3.7K Jul 27 22:41 root >> >> and >> >> home_mailbox = Maildir/ >> mailbox_command = > > These are inconsistent. Read up what home_mailbox means. > >> ... but connecting to both POP and IMAP by thunderbird don't find any >> delivered mail. > > You will have to configure and check consistent locations. /var/mail/ > is not a maildir, and you haven't shown where Dovecot looks - either > tell Postfix to deliver there, or tell Dovecot (off-topic here) to look > for where Postfix delivers.
