New Virtualmin installation changes mail delivery from Maildir to mbox.

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hi folks,

I have a Debian Stretch 9 installation which was happily delivering mail, via fetchmail/maildrop, to Dovecot. Then email can be accessed via LDAP in Maildir format.

When I installed Virtualmin over this existing system, the delivery format mysteriously changes to mbox!

Yes, I know this (existing system) is not the recommended way to do things, but I have a relatively clean Debian 9 installation and minimal special configurations. To clarify further, I do not have any virtual servers, or users, set up on this test system yet. However, the mail format is simply changed, out of the box. I installed using the install.sh script and this went very smoothly (apart from the mbox issue).

I have “mail_system=4” set everywhere (that I can find this configuration setting under usermin/webmin), and also for Dovecot: “mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir”.

Mail is still delivered in the erroneous mbox format".

Thanks in advance for any helpful suggestions.

R.

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Belay this issue. It appears a bear of little brain was a tad confused.

When maildrop cannot find an existing Maildir, it writes to an mbox file, by default! Regardless of what might seem a sensible behaviour, like an error message, or create the configured Maildir, or …?

I’ve been using maildrop + Maildir’s for so long, and I only just discovered that… Live and learn :slight_smile:

R.