[Dovecot] error when using dovecot-lda as non root (vmail) user

[Timo Sirainen]

On 19.4.2012, at 19.09, Andreas Helmcke wrote:

> Apr 19 17:58:07 elablnmail02 dovecot: lda(ahelmcke): Debug: Namespace
> dummy: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=yes, list=no,
> subscriptions=yes location=maildir:/home/mail/user/ahelmcke/public/

Here's the dummy namespace with prefix="".

> Apr 19 17:58:07 elablnmail02 dovecot: lda(ahelmcke): Debug: Namespace :
> type=private, prefix=, sep=, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes,
> subscriptions=yes location=maildir:/home/mail/user/ahelmcke

But what is this? You appear to have an empty namespace {} in your configs?

> Apr 19 17:58:07 elablnmail02 dovecot: lda(ahelmcke): Error: user
> ahelmcke: Initialization failed: namespace configuration error: Duplicate
> namespace prefix: ""

That's why it fails with this.