[Dovecot] ..::MBOX ISSUE::..

[Timo Sirainen]

With IMAP the users must have a mail directory. So you should create
home directories for the users. Also see
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home

On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 09:12 -0500, Alfonso Alejandro Reyes Jimenez
wrote:
> There are no home directory for those users, I think I should start with 
> that information.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> On 5/15/12 9:06 AM, Alfonso Alejandro Reyes Jimenez wrote:
> > Thanks I did it that way and it still download all the mboxes :( but 
> > only with imail.
> >
> > You cant see those emails but you still can see the mboxes.
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > On 5/15/12 8:58 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> >> You shouldn't have removed the "mail_location = " part.
> >>
> >> On 15.5.2012, at 16.41, Alfonso Alejandro Reyes Jimenez wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thanks for your advice, I tried changing the configuration but I got 
> >>> the following error:
> >>>
> >>> /conf.d/10-mail.conf line 31: Unknown setting: mbox:~/mail:INBOX
> >>>
> >>> Is there anything else I can do?
> >>>
> >>> Regards.
> >>>
> >>> Alfonso.
> >>>
> >>> On 5/14/12 10:56 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> >>>> On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 08:29 -0500, Alfonso Alejandro Reyes Jimenez
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>> mail_location = mbox:/var/spool/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
> >>>> This just isn't going to work. You're now specifying that all of the
> >>>> users' folders are in a common /var/spool/mail directory. You need to
> >>>> figure out something else. Common configs are e.g.:
> >>>>
> >>>> mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
> >>>>
> >>>> or:
> >>>>
> >>>> mail_location = 
> >>>> mbox:/var/spool/mail-folders/%u:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> >
> >
>