What Is The Mail Location Defined By Dovecot for Cpanel?

mykkal

• March 10, 2015 13:51

I moved one of my boxes to a non cpanel run server. I'm setting up Dovecot on it and need to know how mail was previously defined. The current location is defined below but I believe cpanel specifies home directories. I want to use the same setup because I will install cpanel on this box at some point. Just not for a few months. mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

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  cPanelMichael

  • March 10, 2015 18:59

  Hello :) The /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf file uses the following values:
  # Location for users' mailboxes. This is the same as the old default_mail_env # setting. The default is empty, which means that Dovecot tries to find the # mailboxes automatically. This won't work if the user doesn't have any mail # yet, so you should explicitly tell Dovecot the full location. # # If you're using mbox, giving a path to the INBOX file (eg. /var/mail/%u) # isn't enough. You'll also need to tell Dovecot where the other mailboxes are # kept. This is called the "root mail directory", and it must be the first # path given in the mail_location setting. # # There are a few special variables you can use, eg.: # # %u - username # %n - user part in user@domain, same as %u if there's no domain # %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if there's no domain # %h - home directory # # See doc/wiki/Variables.txt for full list. Some examples: # # mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir # mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u # mail_location = mbox:/var/mail/%d/%1n/%n:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%1n/%n # # # [%- IF mail_location.defined %] mail_location = [% mail_location %] [%- ELSE %] #mail_location = [%- END %]
  Please keep in mind that cPanel is designed for installation on a fresh operating system. You can't setup Dovecot and expect to smoothly integrate cPanel at a later time. Thank you.

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