postfix mailbox location

yogaboy · 12-19-2006, 12:17 PM

Hi,

I was wondering, if I use
home_mailbox = Maildir/

which location will that end up in? var/mail or in the /home/user/Mailbox dir??

I'm a bit confused about this (as always!

)

Berhanie · 12-19-2006, 06:06 PM

From the postconf(5) man page:

Quote:

The precedence of local(8) delivery features from high to
low is: aliases, .forward files, mailbox_transport_maps,
mailbox_transport, mailbox_command_maps, mailbox_command,
home_mailbox, mail_spool_directory, fallback_trans?
port_maps, fallback_transport and luser_relay.

So, if you did not override home_mailbox with something of greater precedence, local mail should be delivered to $HOME/Maildir/. Note that this is a maildir rather than an mbox, because you specified a trailing slash.

yogaboy · 12-19-2006, 07:21 PM

thanks Berhanie, that's really helpful. I am indeed going to use Mailbox and not mbox as I need Public folders.

edit:

I meant Maildir, not Mailbox!

/edit

Berhanie · 12-19-2006, 07:26 PM

Either maildir or mbox can be used for public folders. It's often the IMAP server which forces you to decide between mbox and maildir.

yogaboy · 12-19-2006, 07:32 PM

I'm using Dovecot and, as far as I understand (which ain't far!), it uses public folders through maildir

Berhanie · 12-19-2006, 07:37 PM

Ah. Ok. I didn't know that about Dovecot. I thought Dovecot was the only one which didn't force you to choose.