[Dovecot] dovecot is confused about mail_location

[Noel Butler]

On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 18:47 -0500, Eric Raymond wrote:
> Noel Butler <noel.butler at ausics.net>:
> > You have omitted the INBOX keyword, change it to ...
> > 
> > mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
> 
> Doesn't fix the problem.  New results:
> 
> oot at grelber:/home/esr# tail /var/log/mail.err
> Nov 24 18:35:07 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/cathy
> Nov 24 18:35:07 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): Fatal: Namespace initialization failed
> root at grelber:/home/esr# ssh cathy at minx
> cathy at minx's password: 
> 
> c

Set  mail_debug=yes

We dont need fetchmail stuff though, only dovecot logs


> mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
Looks good
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