RE: Inboxes incorrectly become /var/mail/%u

2024-10-29 Thread Marc via dovecot
> I am new to dovecot and have just done my first install, but, looking at > your output, you are using Local Delivery rather than LMTP? If so, isn't > the local delivery MTA (postfix, exim or whatever) responsible for > dropping the mail into the correct location? postfix does not know some mail

Re: Inboxes incorrectly become /var/mail/%u

2024-10-29 Thread Nick Howitt via dovecot
I am new to dovecot and have just done my first install, but, looking at your output, you are using Local Delivery rather than LMTP? If so, isn't the local delivery MTA (postfix, exim or whatever) responsible for dropping the mail into the correct location? From your config, you are using postf

Re: Inboxes incorrectly become /var/mail/%u

2024-10-29 Thread Nick Howitt via dovecot
On 29/10/2024 10:58, Marc wrote: I am new to dovecot and have just done my first install, but, looking at your output, you are using Local Delivery rather than LMTP? If so, isn't the local delivery MTA (postfix, exim or whatever) responsible for dropping the mail into the correct location? p

Re: Inboxes incorrectly become /var/mail/%u

2024-10-29 Thread LCN via dovecot
The incoming mails now go into ~/Maildir/ with parameter "home_mailbox = Maildir/" added to /etc/postfix/main.cf. Thank you very much! I would like to close this case and start to learn LMTP and more. ___ dovecot mailing list -- dovecot@dovecot.org To

Inboxes incorrectly become /var/mail/%u

2024-10-29 Thread LCN via dovecot
With configuration "mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir", incoming mails are always saved to /var/mail/%u , which are invisible to Thunderbird. How do I configure Dovecot to save incoming mails to ~/Maildir/cur/ and ~/Maildir/new/ ? Thank you in advance! context: I replaced my host recently. V