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you can check for the directory by opening a shell and doing an ls --aR Maildir in the users home directory. you should see a list similar to the following
You may not have all these directories by default (such as the spam directory) but you shold have a directory structure similar to that one..
If these directories do not exist, open a console as your regular user, go to your home directory and type maildirmake Maildir
if you plan on adding users to the machine and want them to have those directories automatically, you need to update the default profile in /etc/skel/ with the Maildir structure.
Maildir:
total 20
drwx------ 5 test users 4096 Oct 28 15:24 ./
drwx-----x 4 test users 4096 Oct 28 15:24 ../
drwx------ 2 test users 4096 Oct 28 15:24 cur/
drwx------ 2 test users 4096 Oct 28 15:24 new/
drwx------ 2 test users 4096 Oct 28 15:24 tmp/
Maildir/cur:
total 8
drwx------ 2 test users 4096 Oct 28 15:24 ./
drwx------ 5 test users 4096 Oct 28 15:24 ../
Maildir/new:
total 8
drwx------ 2 test users 4096 Oct 28 15:24 ./
drwx------ 5 test users 4096 Oct 28 15:24 ../
Maildir/tmp:
total 8
drwx------ 2 test users 4096 Oct 28 15:24 ./
drwx------ 5 test users 4096 Oct 28 15:24 ../
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