Re: How does Maildir directory get created?

Sorry about the triple post.  I realized after a bit that I had changed 
my email address and thought the first two posts wouldn't come through :)

I added that and it work!!  Thanks for the response.

Jared

mp wrote:
> you can put ./ into defaultdelivery, so:
>
> echo -n ./ > /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jared Smith [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 1:51 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: How does Maildir directory get created?
>
> This is my first attempt at installing a qmail-ldap+courier IMAP email
> server.  I am trying to set it up identical to to our current working 
> qmail-ldap+courier IMAP email server (built by admin before me).  I have
> things working pretty good except for one behavior.  On my old server as
> mail came in for a new user it would create a new directory under
> /var/qmail/users with there username and then create the sub folders cur,
> tmp, and new under that.  So it would look like this
>
> /var/qmail/users/newuser
> /var/qmail/users/newuser/tmp
> /var/qmail/users/newuser/cur
> /var/qmail/users/newuser/new
>
> on my new system as mail comes in qmail (I assume it is qmail that does
> it) creates another subfolder called Maildir.  So the directory structure on
> the new system looks like this
>
> /var/qmail/users/newuser
> /var/qmail/users/newuser/Maildir
> /var/qmail/users/newuser/Maildir/new
> /var/qmail/users/newuser/Maildir/cur
> /var/qmail/users/newuser/Maildir/tmp
>
> this throws courier imap off and actually fails to authenticate the user.
> It gives an error saying
>
> * BYE Clock skew detected. Check the clock on the file server
>
> in searching the net for that answer I came across something saying courier
> IMAP is trying to create a file in tmp folder and compare its time stamp to
> the servers time.  Turns out that if it can't create the file in tmp dir it
> throws the clock skew error.  So I decided to get rid of the Maildirs
> directory and manually move cur, tmp, and new up one directory and rm -rf
> the Maildirs directory.  After I did that courier would authenticate and I
> could see the mail in the cur using Evolution imap client.
>
> I know it was probably a step in the setup I forgot to do but I can't seem
> to figure this one out.  How do I get qmail to deliver to
> /var/qmail/users/newuser rather than /var/qmail/users/newuser/Maildir
>
> I have this set
> [root@prodmail01 control]# cat ldapmessagestore /var/qmail/users
>
> Any one have an idea where I went wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Jared
>
>