24 Jan
2010
24 Jan
'10
10:08 p.m.
Me again!
I'm slightly confused about one thing. Still trying to follow the
instructions here http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix.
I trying to get my head around a slight conflict. The server is
delivering email to /var/mail/virtual/graeme. Definitely arriving. But
my mail clients appear to be looking in a different directory,
/home/graeme/Maildir.
How does it move across? Am I missing something blindingly obvious?
Many thanks,
Graeme
25 Jan
25 Jan
2:35 p.m.
Hello,
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:08:22PM +0000, Graeme Simpson wrote:
Me again!
I'm slightly confused about one thing. Still trying to follow the
instructions here http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix.
Disclaimer: I've not read the above.
I trying to get my head around a slight conflict. The
server is
delivering email to /var/mail/virtual/graeme. Definitely arriving. But my
mail clients appear to be looking in a different directory,
/home/graeme/Maildir.
How does it move across? Am I missing something blindingly obvious?
/var/mail/virtual/graeme sounds like an mbox whereas
/home/graeme/Maildir sounds like a Maildir. Don't you just need to
configure your mail client to find an mbox-format file at
/var/mail/virtual/graeme? What is your client?
Cheers,
Andy
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4:49 p.m.
On 25/01/10 14:35, Andy Smith wrote:
Hello,
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:08:22PM +0000, Graeme Simpson wrote:
That's because (assuming by clients, you mean courier) you told courier
that's where your maildir was.
Me again!
I'm slightly confused about one thing. Still trying to follow the
instructions here http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix.
Disclaimer: I've not read the above.
> I trying to get my head around a slight conflict. The server is
> delivering email to /var/mail/virtual/graeme. Definitely arriving. But my
> mail clients appear to be looking in a different directory,
> /home/graeme/Maildir. From the site you posted, the
'/etc/courier/authmysqlrc' section:
...
Added maildir
MYSQL_MAILDIR_FIELD concat(home,'/',maildir)
...
Assuming 'home' is a courier variable representing a user's home
directory (as 'maildir' == Maildir ??) this would expand to
/home/graeme/Maildir for the user graeme
to me it looks like you need to redefine that part.
possibly something like (pure "educated" guess, testing required):
MYSQL_MAILDIR_FIELD concat('/var/mail/virtual/', name)
more research required on that bit...
Regards,
Stuart
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11:08 p.m.
Stuart Sears wrote:
On 25/01/10 14:35, Andy Smith wrote:
Interesting one this. Done a bit more research.
home is another db field which should resolve to /var/spool/mail/virtual
for all users. But it doesn't seem to want to play ball and simply
inserts the text instead. Amending the line as per your suggestion above
has worked just fine. Now set to concat('/var/spool/mail/virtual',name)
Cheers,
Graeme
Hello,
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:08:22PM +0000, Graeme Simpson wrote:
That's because (assuming by clients, you mean courier) you told courier
that's where your maildir was.
From the site you posted, the '/etc/courier/authmysqlrc' section:
...
Added maildir
MYSQL_MAILDIR_FIELD concat(home,'/',maildir)
...
Assuming 'home' is a courier variable representing a user's home
directory (as 'maildir' == Maildir ??) this would expand to
/home/graeme/Maildir for the user graeme
to me it looks like you need to redefine that part.
possibly something like (pure "educated" guess, testing required):
MYSQL_MAILDIR_FIELD concat('/var/mail/virtual/', name)
more research required on that bit...
Regards,
Stuart Me again!
I'm slightly confused about one thing. Still trying to follow the
instructions here http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix.
Disclaimer: I've not read
the above.
> I trying to get my head around a slight conflict. The server is
> delivering email to /var/mail/virtual/graeme. Definitely arriving. But my
> mail clients appear to be looking in a different directory,
> /home/graeme/Maildir.
26 Jan
26 Jan
10:52 a.m.
On 25/01/2010 23:08, Graeme Simpson wrote:
[...]
Interesting one this. Done a bit more research.
home is another db field which should resolve to /var/spool/mail/virtual
for all users. But it doesn't seem to want to play ball and simply
inserts the text instead. Amending the line as per your suggestion above
has worked just fine. Now set to concat('/var/spool/mail/virtual',name)
so now you need to know why 'home' is not being interpreted properly...
This is why I use dovecot. Minimally simple config :)
oh, and avoid databases** :)
Stuart
** well, actually I use LDAP, which has its own foibles...
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