There are two main types of email storage methods.
1. mbox
2. Maildir
The default location for mbox files is /var/mail/username (where username is
a FILE not a DIRECTORY).
The default location for Maildir files is ~username/Maildir (where Maildir
is a DIRECTORY not a FILE).
I think your problem is that your MTA (or is it MTU?) (postfix,sendmail,
etc..) is delivering mail in mbox format, rather than maildir format.
Double check with your MTA/MTU to make sure that its delivering mail in
maildir format.
Blake
-----Original Message-----
From: cour...@lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:cour...@lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Stefan
Kruger
Sent: October 11, 2001 8:35 AM
To: cour...@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [courier-users] How point imapd to right directory?
Hi all,
Firstly - I'm new to this game, so I apologise in advance if this is a
newbie mistake.
I've spent the last few days playing with Courier-imap. I would appreciate
if someone could help me, or point me in the right direction on the
following issue. On my machine (FreeBSD 4.4) email is kept in the
/var/mail/XXXX directory, where XXXX is the username (maildir). I've
installed imapd, using PAM authentication, all which seems to work fine --
clients log in, authenticating successfully, according to the log.
However, I get the error message "Maildir: no such file or directory" back
from the server, meaning that I have not set it up correctly with regards
to telling imapd where to look for maildirs.
Reading through imapd.rc I noted that couriertcpd is started with the last
argument being "${exec_prefix}/bin/imapd Maildir", so I tried changing
that to "/var/mail", but that was not the correct solution.
I must be missing something obvious, but I can't see any configure option
that specifies this, nor any setting in .../etc/imapd
So, in short, how do I tell imapd to find mailboxes in /var/mail?
Thanks in advance for any pointers,
stefan
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