[Dovecot] mbox inbox default

[bhayden at umn.edu]

On Aug 1 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:

>On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 08:58 -0500, bhayden at umn.edu wrote:
>> We're an mbox environment, inboxes in /var/mail/$USER (I'll include 
>> dovecot
>> -n output at the bottom of this mail). mail_location is set accordingly 
>> for deliver.
>> 
>> I'd assumed that if the /var/mail/$USER file doesn't exist, dovecot 
>> would create it, but we've discovered from experience (and I verified it 
>> in mbox-storage.c) that if access(path, R_OK|W_OK) fails--as it does if 
>> the file doesn't exist--that dovecot defaults then to delivering in 
>> root_dir/inbox.
>
>That access() check is done only if INBOX location isn't explicitly
>specified.
>
>Is this a problem only with deliver or also with imap?

Deliver only. On further review, I discovered where the problem lies 
locally, it was not a Dovecot issue. Sorry to bother. :) Thanks for your 
help,

-Brian