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Old 05-22-2010, 05:42 PM   #1
floweringmind
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Dovecot not fetching mail


This is a Virtualmin setup where the user's local mail folders are located at: /home/domain/homes/user/mail

The user can login to Dovecot but it doesn't fetch their emails.
There are no errors in the logs.

Is my mail location wrong?

Code:
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

auth default {

  mechanisms = plain login
 
  socket listen {

    client {
      # The client socket is generally safe to export to everyone. Typical use
      # is to export it to your SMTP server so it can do SMTP AUTH lookups
      # using it.
      path = /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-sasl-auth
      mode = 0660
      user = postfix
      group = postfix
    }
  
  }

}
 
Old 05-22-2010, 05:52 PM   #2
floweringmind
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I figured it out. The location was wrong, it needed to be:

mail_location = mbox:~/homes/%u/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

Then it required uncommenting the following:

mbox_read_locks = fcntl
mbox_write_locks = fcntl
 
  


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