Sorry for being the new guy, but I didn't see any forums anyplace for this kinda stuff. I'm running Gentoo, learning to setup an email server. I got courier installed and running for the most part (using MySQL auth) SMTP delivers mail to the right locations (virual user boxes), however, it makes .maildir as a file, not a directory... Which causes problems later.

Heres an example: I make dir: /home/mail/domain/user if I mkdir ./.maildir the SMTP fails to deliver however, if I don't create the maildir, courier creates it for me (not a directory), a file called .maildir with -rw------- perms.

Now, when I try to connect via POP (haven't tried imap yet), I get an error in my client, and the log file shows: [pop3d] chdir .maildir: Not a directory leading me to believe one of them isn't working properly.

When I try to cd .maildir as root, I get a "Not a Directory". After talking on the courier-imap list, it was concluded it most likely was a
courier-mta problem. Is there a way to check that it is making maildirs and not
mailboxes?

Where would I look for this, or is it a simple solution?