How to make dovecot and postfix use the same mail directory

Question

I'm trying to configure postfix and dovecot to connect to the same LDAP, and I kind of succeeded. But now, I have some discrepencies.

The reproduction is as:

I connect to dovecot in IMAP with thunderbird
I create an email from myself to send to myself
I use the postfix from the same server with the same user
I send the email

The results are:

The sent email is put in the Sent folder.
But I get no email in my inbox.

Checking on the server:

The sent email is in the /var/mail/<username>/.Sent/cur/ directory
The received email is in the /var/mail/<domain>/<username>/new/ directory

I thought I configured the maildir directory both the same way (as in /var/mail/%d/%n), but there must be a problem.

My configuration (external, sorry, couldn't make it in the question. And after 30h (still counting) on those damn configuration files, I'm not really sure which part might impact what…)

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 21 '18 at 20:44

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Do not deliver messages by postfix. Pass them to the dovecot's deliver instead.

See https://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix for further information.

answered Jan 21 '18 at 20:44

Kondybas

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It's already the case, it uses dovecot-lmtp. But still, it's in the wrong directory, and I don't see, based on my configuration, why it is. – Dolanor Jan 22 '18 at 11:24

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 27 '18 at 23:42

Keep home_mailbox = in the main.cf empty, and

smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot

smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth

and in dovecot conf

mail_home = /var/mail/%d/%n

mail_location = maildir:~

Also in dovecot conf you need to add or change this:

service auth {

    unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { 
        mode = 0666
        #Change to the user and group of your postfix
        user = postfix  
        group = postfix
    }

    unix_listener auth-userdb {
        mode = 0666
        #Change to the user and group of your postfix
        user = postfix
        group = postfix
    }
    #dovecot user
    user = dovecot

}


service auth-worker {
  # Auth worker process is run as root by default, so that it can access
  # /etc/shadow. If this isn't necessary, the user should be changed to
  # $default_internal_user.
  user = root
}

How to make dovecot and postfix use the same mail directory

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