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Re: quick alpine config question?

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On Sat, 25 Nov 2023, Tim Woodall wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Nov 2023, Tim Woodall wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi folks,
>>> We have a member of the greater Toronto Linux Users group, who rather 
>>> enjoys setting up email accounts,hosting allot of them personally.
>>> He is new to alpine though, our test of roundcube was almost, but not 
>>> quite successful due to sloppy JavaScript coding on the send button.
>>> where he is stuck at the moment is how to get alpine to display imap 
>>> things like the sent mail folder int he folders list.
>>> Dreamhost is having the same problem with some of our new office email 
>>> accounts.
>>> is there a specific imap server config file, or a choice from the main 
>>> settings s, config c options?
>>> Also, what about the imap aspect of certificates? I recall there is a new 
>>> way to create the aph thing google requires.
>>> Thanks for ideas.
>>> Kare
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> Are you using mbox or Maildir? And is inbox in /home or /var/spool/mail?
>> 
>> I have this working with dovecot. Maildir with INBOX in /home.
>> 
>> I'll look up the config but it will probably be Saturday. I vaguely
>> recall having ti tweak something in the dovecot configs.
>> 
>> Tim.
>> 
>> 
>
> These are the two changes I made to /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf
>
Sorry, don't know what happened there: I must have accidentally deleted the extra line!

diff --git a/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf b/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf
index b47235f..5b20997 100644
--- a/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf
+++ b/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@
  #
  # <doc/wiki/MailLocation.txt>
  #
-mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
+#mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
+mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:INBOX=~/Maildir/INBOX:LAYOUT=fs

  # If you need to set multiple mailbox locations or want to change default
  # namespace settings, you can do it by defining namespace sections.
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@ namespace inbox {
    # namespaces or some clients get confused. '/' is usually a good one.
    # The default however depends on the underlying mail storage format.
    #separator = 
+  separator = /

    # Prefix required to access this namespace. This needs to be different for
    # all namespaces. For example "Public/".

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    Re: quick alpine config question? Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2023-11-25 10:30 +0100
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