Where is imapd.conf option to direct postfix to /var/spool/imapd/user/mailbox?

Wil Cooley wcooley at nakedape.cc
Sat Sep 17 21:10:46 EDT 2005


On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 12:21 -0500, Flash Love wrote:
> I am using postfix+cyrus+sasl+webcryadm. When logging to imap accounts the 
> following complaint appears in maillog:
> 
> pop3: login: [192.168.2.154] benu0001 plaintext User logged in
> pop3: IOERROR: opening /var/spool/imap/b/user/benu0001/cyrus.header: No such 
> file or directory
> pop3: Unable to open maildrop for benu0001: System I/O error
> 
> Pop is attempting to open the incorrect file /var/.../b/user/benu0001 when it 
> should be just /var/.../user/benu0001. Which imap option is adding the /b/ to 
> the mailbox file name?

You're going about it all wrong.  Postfix doesn't deliver directly
to /var/spool/imap; it delivers to Cyrus through LMTP, which manages the
backend spool itself.

Wil
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Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape.cc>
Naked Ape Consulting, Ltd. <http://nakedape.cc>
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