IMAPD and Sendmail are pointing to different location for mailbox

[Howard Yuen]

Dear Folks,

I have recently installed the Redhat Linux(2.4.21-9.EL) along with the bundle imap daemon. However, the default MTA sendmail seems to store the mailboxes in a single file and the imap daemon points to the local user's home directory as the mailbox location. Is there anyway to have Sendmail and IMAP work together?

Thx,
Howard

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

They work together for me using sendmail, pop2/pop3 and imapd for squirrelmail without any modification of any configuration files at all.

I'd say something had to be changed, perhaps the users home directory during the intervening time period.

My system was set up on an Rh 7.3 system and we did not overwrite the /home fs because all our users websites were on it.

If the home dir is right for the user you should be able to get rid of the duplicate structue and the next time the user fires up imap or pop, whichever was deleted, things will be fine.

The user mail is actually stored (spooled) elsewhere in /var/mail/

SEP

SEP

[Vernon Brown_4]

When a user uses a login console to check their mail by typing "mail" at the command line, then exit mail without deleting the mail, their mail is stored in their local directory in a file named mbox. That's the only way I've seen mail stored in a user's directory.

I'm using Fedora Core 1 fully updated with up2date, no modifications; imap and sendmail worked fine from the gitgo.

Vern

[Howard Yuen]

Steven & Vern,

Thank you for your response. Steven, i don't know what I have been smoking but now I can see the messages under the IMAP client. You are right it just work...
Vern, thanks for your comment on the "mail" command. However, it did not address my problem with the imapd client.

in short, case close

Thx,
Howard