WOE HOE! Worked!
So I changed
mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/%u/Maildirtomail_location =
maildir:/var/mail/%n
and now it all works!
Thanks much!
From: Steffen Kaiser
To: John Williams
Cc: "dovecot@dovecot.org"
Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2016 2:34 AM
Subject: Re: Do
: John Williams
Cc: "dovecot@dovecot.org"
Sent: Monday, February 1, 2016 3:43 AM
Subject: Re: Dovecot with Maildir
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On Sat, 30 Jan 2016, John Williams wrote:
> I believe (not sure actually) the answer is in the mail_location vari
Folks,
I'm trying to get dovecot to check a for mail in a maildir format on Ubuntu.
Mail is being delivered to and from the system. I can send and receive mail
using Pine & Mutt. But I cannot seem to get dovecot to work with the maildir.
So I can't check for mail using Dovecot.
This is what
s unusable. Using a local server eliminates that problem.
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 4:19 AM, Steffen Kaiser
> wrote:
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>> On Thu, 8 Aug 2013, John Williams wrote:
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>>>> in order to not fil
Steffen Kaiser writes:
> On Tue, 6 Aug 2013, John Williams wrote:
>
>>> dovecot-lda -c config-file -d user < mailfile
>> Aha! Piping a message to the process was the step I was not aware of.
>
> does offlineimap provides logs to get to know what mails are n
Joseph Tam writes:
> John Williams writes:
>
>> *What doesn't work* I thought the next step would be to execute
>> dovecot-lda manually (as is suggested on the wiki and in numerous
>> newsgroup posts), but I can't figure out how to do this. When I execute
>
Please forgive me if these are silly questions. I am a normal user, not
a system administrator. I am using Dovecot as a kind of IMAP caching
proxy, i.e. reading IMAP mail via Gnus + Dovecot + Offlineimap. I am
trying to enable sieve functionality.
*Desired behaviour* When Gnus (or whatever MUA
