Postfix mailbox location

[Wade Smart]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 20:35, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> Wade Smart wrote:
>> After getting my fetchmail to work properly (thanks guys :D)
>> postfix produced an error:
>>
>> postfix/local: status = bounced (cannot update mailbox
>> /home/wadesmart/data/wadesmart/Maildir for user wadesmart.)
>>
>> My mail was in /home/wadesmart/Maildir on my old system.
>> Now my old home is mounted as /data and my mail is located at
>> /data/wadesmart/Maildir.
>>
>> I was reading the postfix manual and it says "Optional pathname of a
>> mailbox file relative to a local(8) user's home directory."
>> Im reading that to mean I cant put my mail where it is at - correct?
>> So can I not have it outside my /home directory?
>>
>
> Yes you can. Change your MAIL or MAILDIR env var to point to the new
> location.
>
> Edit ~/.bashrc and add the following line to the very end of the script:
>
> export MAIL="/data/wadesmart/Maildir/"
> export MAILDIR="/data/wadesmart/Maildir/"
>
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I did this but received errors:

cannot update mailbox /home/wadesmart/data/wadesmart/Maildir for user
wadesmart,
unable to create lock file
/home/wadesmart/data/wadesmart/Maildir.lock: no such file or directory

Its like it cant see out of /home.

Wade
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