On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 08:44:51AM +0200, Binarus wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> on our mail server, I let sendmail deliver incoming messages to a file in
> mbox format called "inbox" in each user's home directory. Now I would like
> to use dovecot as POP3 server so that users can let their MUA download their
> messages via POP3. I do not want to use any IMAP functionality.
>
> The POP3 part works with the configuration shown below, but nevertheless
> there is a problem which is a show stopper:
>
> Although I think I have turned off IMAP (e.g. no IMAP listener), dovecot
> still creates .imap directories and does so in a very weird way. It creates
> one .imap subdirectory in every subdirectory of each user's home directory,
> and for every file in each user's home directory creates an additional
> subdirectory with the same name in its .imap directories. It does this
> recursively, and 1000 files in a user's home directory would mean 1000
> additional subdirectories.
>
> Of course, I can't live with that. I know that the dovecot documentation
> discourages using the home directory as mail location, but in my case this
> should not be a problem at all if IMAP is not used. I have played around with
> dovecot for several days, but could not solve that problem.
>
> So how can I turn off IMAP completely and prevent dovecot from creating any
> .imap directories or IMAP related files?
I suppose you'd be OK with having IMAP but having it look *only* at the
designated mbox file.
That would be something I could use.
-- hendrik
>
> This happens with dovecot 2.3.4.1 (f79e8e7e4) on Debian buster (with all
> updates applied).
>
> My configuration (doveconf -n) is (the configuration is complete - I don't
> use SQL or LDAP):
>
> # 2.3.4.1 (f79e8e7e4): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # Pigeonhole version 0.5.4 ()
> # OS: Linux 4.19.0-9-amd64 x86_64 Debian 10.4
> # Hostname: host.example.com
> listen = aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
> mail_location = mbox:~:INBOX=~/inbox
> mail_privileged_group = mail
> namespace inbox {
> inbox = yes
> location =
> mailbox Drafts {
> special_use = \Drafts
> }
> mailbox Junk {
> special_use = \Junk
> }
> mailbox Sent {
> special_use = \Sent
> }
> mailbox "Sent Messages" {
> special_use = \Sent
> }
> mailbox Trash {
> special_use = \Trash
> }
> prefix =
> }
> passdb {
> driver = pam
> }
> pop3_lock_session = yes
> protocols = " pop3"
> service imap-login {
> inet_listener imap {
> port = 0
> }
> inet_listener imaps {
> port = 0
> }
> }
> service pop3-login {
> inet_listener pop3 {
> port = 0
> }
> inet_listener pop3s {
> port = 995
> ssl = yes
> }
> }
> ssl = required
> ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/tls/xxxx.crt
> ssl_cipher_list = DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
> ssl_client_ca_dir = /etc/ssl/certs
> ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it
> ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it
> ssl_min_protocol = TLSv1.2
> ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = yes
> userdb {
> driver = passwd
> }
>
> Thank you very much in advance for any idea!
>
> Regards,
>
> Binarus
