[Dovecot] Dovecot problem after last Debian sid update (solved)

[Paul Scott]

On Feb 26, 2009, at 10:26 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 02:04 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
>> In another email I can't find at the moment you suggested that I  
>> look at
>> the logs.  From there it didn't take long to figure out that  
>> something
>> had changed with update of Dovecot that no longer allowed this
>> configuration line to work:
>>
>> mail_location: ~/Maildir
>>
>> and both in dovecot.conf and log I was warned to add the prefix  
>> "maildir""
>>
>> With this everything seems to be fixed.
>>
>> I don't know whether this would be considered any kind of bug.  The
>> Debian package allowed me to upgrade Dovecot without warning me  
>> that the
>> rules for mail_location had changed.
>
> The rules haven't really changed. If you don't add the maildir:  
> prefix,
> Dovecot tries to detect automatically if it's mbox or maildir. With
> Maildir the detection is done by checking if ~/Maildir/cur/ directory
> exists. It does this with v1.1, v1.0.15 and I'm pretty sure also with
> older v1.0 versions. So why it broke with the upgrade, I don't really
> know.


Ok.  Thanks!   I've got my situation fixed rather painlessly.

I may follow it up on the Debian lists just in case someone else has  
had a similar problem.

Paul