As seen in the /var/log/maillog when mail received or sent, sendmail saving mails to /var/spool/mail/$user and logging them as stat=Sent
When a user try to send or receive mail via imap it is not shown in ~$user/mail/
/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf
mail_location = maildir:~/mail:INBOX=~/mail/.INBOX
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Directory and file permissons are correct.
[root@mail ~]# ll -d /home/$user/mail
drwx------. 7 $user $user 4096 Oct 25 14:04 /home/$user/mail
There is no log about this problem in /var/log/maillog. I am wondering that how to send mail file to user's mail directory?
Best Answer
Andrzej's comment above is right on; dovecot isn't supposed to automagically do that. You will either need to tell sendmail to put the mail where dovecot is expecting it (or at least tell its local delivery agent to do that), or tell dovecot to expect it where sendmail puts it.
In my case, I do the latter; my
dovecot.conf
includes the lineEdit: your sendmail is configured much as mine, using
procmail
as the local MDA. The man page for procmail suggests that/var/spool/mail/$user
is the default place that procmail wil put incoming mail, if no other is provided:so I repeat my point: you can either configure sendmail's MDA, procmail, to put incoming mail in
/home/$user/mail/.INBOX
, or you can configure dovecot to look in/var/spool/mail/$user
. But you will have to do one of these things, it's not going to happen by magic.