Why is received mail stored in ~/Maildir and sent mail in ~/mail?

Question

So I setup my mail server eons, and I'm doing maintenance on it right now and I'd figure I'd fix a few things with it that's bugged me forever. Mainly, I'm trying to move all the mail storage into a single folder and make it a hidden folder.

However, I can't figure out why sent mail is being stored it ~/mail while received mail is being stored in ~/Maildir. Everything I read says that it's my client storing it in the mail folder, but I don't see how that's possible. What configuration file/property determines where users' sent mail is stored?

Server setup:

Ubuntu 14.04
Postfix
Courier

Which mail client are you running and do you run it on the same server where postfix and courier run? — HBruijn, Jun 26 '14 at 15:14
My mail client is thunderbird and it's ran locally, off server — Malfist, Jun 26 '14 at 16:20

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 28 '14 at 20:32

Your configurations of postfix and dovecot diverge.

In postfix you have the parameter home_mailbox to configure where mail goes to. In your case it's Maildir.

For courier I did find something in their incomplete documentation: http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/README.html

Why is received mail stored in ~/Maildir and sent mail in ~/mail?

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