Apple Mail Server: /var/mail/ with IMAP

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An article on AFP548: [i:fae9dce261]Mac OS X Server 10.2’s Apple Mail Server and UNIX’ /var/mail[/i:fae9dce261] describes using /var/mail as a mail drop for AMS. Mail from this directory is imported when log in thru POP or IMAP. My question to you all is: [b:fae9dce261]Has anyone actually tried this with IMAP?[/b:fae9dce261] We have this working, but mostly in theory, mail is imported when users log in, but not [b:fae9dce261]while[/b:fae9dce261] they are logged in – unless they switch mail boxes or otherwise perturb their connection, mail just piles up in /var/mail. Has anyone else tried this?

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[quote:57e142168c=”MacTroll”]It works well, as you found out with POP, but not so much with IMAP, for heavy IMAP sites I usually suggest to pipe the mail to port 627 and have the Apple Mail Server listen for it there.

Also you can try playing around with the connection timeouts on the IMAP server. Dropping these down quite low should force a reconnect which should pull in the new mail again.

Joel[/quote:57e142168c]

Ok, I’ve tried both, but neither work. We has OSX 10.1.x that we upgraded. Applemailserver broke, but started working when I updated it. Now, I’ve installed postfix, and switched to Other Mail Trnasport on port 627. I’ve tried in postfix both mailbox_transport=smtp:[127.0.0.1]:627 and leaving it commented out.

With it in, it give a cant connect to port 627 error in mail.log. With it commented out, it works fine, putting mail in /var/mail. However… ams never gets it. I can send locally to locally, and the email ends up in /var/mail. I can send from a remote account to a local account, and it ends up in /var/mail. Now if I couild only get AMS to get the mail and pass it on to the email clients it would be great.

Please give me a christmas pressent, and tell me how to fix this. 😕

Thanks

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[Anonymous]

Damn, but thats bad inglish. 🙂

Should have proof read it…

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