Re: [Dovecot] What is your dovecot setup?

2007-09-18 Thread Mark E. Mallett
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 12:57:11AM -0400, Bill Cole wrote: At 12:42 AM -0400 9/18/07, Benjamin R. Haskell imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: ... [existence of maildirfolder file] had no ill effect on the visibility of my folders. That said, I also don't use quotas

Re: [Dovecot] What is your dovecot setup?

2007-09-17 Thread Timothy Murphy
On Mon 17 Sep 2007, Bill Cole wrote: At 2:45 AM +0100 9/17/07, Timothy Murphy wrote: I'd be really grateful if someone running a dovecot IMAP (or IMAPS) server could tell me exactly how their email folders are arranged. Beware. You are asking to have other people tell you who you are. That

Re: [Dovecot] What is your dovecot setup?

2007-09-17 Thread Gunter Ohrner
Am Montag, 17. September 2007 schrieb Timothy Murphy: ~/Maildir/new is where Postfix delivers new messages. ~Maildir/cur is where dovecot moves messages that it has seen. My mail clients do all Where exactly do they move email to? Just where Bill wrote: New mail is delivered to ~/Maildir/new

Re: [Dovecot] What is your dovecot setup?

2007-09-17 Thread Bill Cole
At 1:55 PM +0100 9/17/07, Timothy Murphy imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: On Mon 17 Sep 2007, Bill Cole wrote: At 2:45 AM +0100 9/17/07, Timothy Murphy wrote: I'd be really grateful if someone running a dovecot IMAP (or IMAPS) server could tell me exactly how their

Re: [Dovecot] What is your dovecot setup?

2007-09-17 Thread Timothy Murphy
On Mon 17 Sep 2007, Gunter Ohrner wrote: A concrete example of an actual mail setup and how this is seen by an IMAP client would have been much more useful, in my view. There is an example of the Maildir++ directory layout on this page. Er, which page?

Re: [Dovecot] What is your dovecot setup?

2007-09-17 Thread Timothy Murphy
On Tue 18 Sep 2007, Bill Cole wrote: A concrete example of an actual mail setup and how this is seen by an IMAP client would have been much more useful, in my view. Aside from creating the top-level Maildir directory and telling whatever your delivery agent is where to find it (and perhaps

Re: [Dovecot] What is your dovecot setup?

2007-09-17 Thread WJCarpenter
My dovecot.conf sets mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir/ dovecot has sometimes had trouble with ~. I use %h instead. (I think there is a mention of this on one of the wiki pages.) I don't recall if I changed to %h because I was having trouble or because I wanted to avoid trouble.

Re: [Dovecot] What is your dovecot setup?

2007-09-17 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote: On Mon 17 Sep 2007, Gunter Ohrner wrote: A concrete example of an actual mail setup and how this is seen by an IMAP client would have been much more useful, in my view. There is an example of the Maildir++ directory layout on this page. Er, which

Re: [Dovecot] What is your dovecot setup?

2007-09-17 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote: On Tue 18 Sep 2007, Bill Cole wrote: A concrete example of an actual mail setup and how this is seen by an IMAP client would have been much more useful, in my view. Aside from creating the top-level Maildir directory and telling whatever your

Re: [Dovecot] What is your dovecot setup?

2007-09-17 Thread Bill Cole
At 2:10 AM +0100 9/18/07, Timothy Murphy imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: On Tue 18 Sep 2007, Bill Cole wrote: A concrete example of an actual mail setup and how this is seen by an IMAP client would have been much more useful, in my view. Aside from creating the

Re: [Dovecot] What is your dovecot setup?

2007-09-17 Thread FiL
Timothy Murphy wrote: Surely it would take far less time to give your actual setup than it would to explain (at length) how easy it is to set it up ... Here is my server directory setup: ~/Maildir/[cur,new,tmp], ~/Maildir/.Family/[cur,new,tmp], etc. My dovecot.conf sets mail_location =

Re: [Dovecot] What is your dovecot setup?

2007-09-17 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Bill Cole wrote: At 2:10 AM +0100 9/18/07, Timothy Murphy imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: I cannot see the Family folder from my IMAPS client. Also it complains of the lack of .INBOX.directory (Could Not Determine Resource Status). A concrete

Re: [Dovecot] What is your dovecot setup?

2007-09-17 Thread Bill Cole
At 12:42 AM -0400 9/18/07, Benjamin R. Haskell imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Bill Cole wrote: At 2:10 AM +0100 9/18/07, Timothy Murphy imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: I cannot see the Family folder from my IMAPS client.

[Dovecot] What is your dovecot setup?

2007-09-16 Thread Timothy Murphy
I'd be really grateful if someone running a dovecot IMAP (or IMAPS) server could tell me exactly how their email folders are arranged. What is the mail_location setting in /etc/dovecot.conf ? What are the directories (or some of them) containing mail messages? Does the client see an inbox

Re: [Dovecot] What is your dovecot setup?

2007-09-16 Thread Tim Bates
Timothy Murphy wrote: I'd be really grateful if someone running a dovecot IMAP (or IMAPS) server could tell me exactly how their email folders are arranged. What is the mail_location setting in /etc/dovecot.conf ? On my home one, I left it blank. On a system at another site, I have it set

Re: [Dovecot] What is your dovecot setup?

2007-09-16 Thread Bill Cole
At 2:45 AM +0100 9/17/07, Timothy Murphy wrote: I'd be really grateful if someone running a dovecot IMAP (or IMAPS) server could tell me exactly how their email folders are arranged. Beware. You are asking to have other people tell you who you are. That usually does not work well. What is