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Dovecot Mailbox on Dropbox

I have setup a local Dovecot server on my system and I want to store any emails I send to it in a dropbox folder. I have the following mail_location setting:

mail_location = "Absolute path to my dropbox folder"

I can connect to the server just fine and it also allows me to store emails on it. However, when I check the dropbox directory, it is empty. Where are my emails going?

UPDATE: Ok I've managed to figure out that the path specified in mail_location is being created under base_dir. But that is not the behaviour I want. I want the mailboxes to be stored in the path I've specified.

Solution

  • Ok I solved this problem by creating a symlink to my Dropbox folder under base_dir.