[Dovecot] New admin, not much success

[Chuck McManis]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:44 AM, William Blunn
<bill+dovecot at blunn.org<bill%2Bdovecot at blunn.org>
> wrote:

> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 08:28 -0700, Chuck McManis wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Jun 16 08:22:07 eeebox dovecot: pop3(cmcmanis): Error: user cmcmanis:
>>> Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from mail_location
>>> setting
>>> failed: mbox: mbox root directory can't be a file: /home/cmcmanis/Mailbox
>>> (
>>> http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Mbox)
>>>
>> ..
>>
>>
>>
>>> Now it strikes me that this message indicates that Dovecot is confused
>>> about
>>> how mail is delivered on my system and is looking for a Maildir
>>> implementation when I"m using single files.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> No, it's looking for a directory containing mbox files. See the wiki URL
>> and "Only /var/mail/ mboxes" section in it.
>>
>
> One wonders if Chuck's stated requirement may be reasonably served by
> something like this:
>
> mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=~/Mailbox
>
> and create a directory "mail" in each user's home directory.
>
> This should then make Dovecot consider each user's INBOX to be an
> mbox-format file at "~/Mailbox", and also allows Dovecot to keep indexes in
> the directory "~/mail", thereby enabling Chuck's users to take advantage of
> Dovecot's indexing functionality.
>
> Fascinating, that gets it further, it creates a bunch of stuff in
mail/.imap (which is confusing because I really really don't want IMAP and
have removed IMAP from the protocols served and the ports listened on etc)
Then it complains that it can't do an fcntl on Mailbox. It said 'operation
not supported.'

--Chuck

> Bill
>