[Dovecot] POP3 fails on non-existent inbox

[Timo Sirainen]

On 13.7.2004, at 04:27, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> Using the latest RPM (dovecot-0.99.10.5) on Fedora Core 2. I connected 
> to the server by POP3 for a user who'd not yet received email (ever) 
> so she didn't have a spool file in /var/spool/mail, and dovecot was 
> failing on login.
>
> I just tested it by removing my own mailbox and see this in maillog:
>
> pop3-login: Login: ken [127.0.0.1]
> pop3(ken): stat() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/ken: No such 
> file or directory

Hmm. What do you have in default_mail_env setting? That file should be 
created automatically, and I couldn't get it to break myself.

Or actually, does the user have access to create new files in 
/var/spool/mail? Looks like Dovecot doesn't complain if it can't create 
it. I'll change that.
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