[Dovecot] POP3 fails on non-existent inbox

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Tuesday, July 13, 2004 1:47 PM +0300 Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> 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.

default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u

> 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.

No. On Fedora Core 2:

[ken at newred spool]$ ls -ld /var/spool/mail
drwxrwxr-x  2 root mail 4096 Jul 13 07:29 /var/spool/mail