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Malfist
Asked: 2014-06-27 06:52:30 +0800 CST

Why is received mail stored in ~/Maildir and sent mail in ~/mail?

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So I setup my mail server eons, and I'm doing maintenance on it right now and I'd figure I'd fix a few things with it that's bugged me forever. Mainly, I'm trying to move all the mail storage into a single folder and make it a hidden folder.

However, I can't figure out why sent mail is being stored it ~/mail while received mail is being stored in ~/Maildir. Everything I read says that it's my client storing it in the mail folder, but I don't see how that's possible. What configuration file/property determines where users' sent mail is stored?

Server setup:

  • Ubuntu 14.04
  • Postfix
  • Courier
ubuntu

1 Answers

  1. Your configurations of postfix and dovecot diverge.

    In postfix you have the parameter home_mailbox to configure where mail goes to. In your case it's Maildir.

    For courier I did find something in their incomplete documentation: http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/README.html

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