[Dovecot] Panic: file mail-storage.c: line 834 (mailbox_verify_name): assertion failed

[Timo Sirainen]

On 28.9.2013, at 18.11, Kamil Andrusz <wizz at mniam.net> wrote:

> Sep 28 16:57:21 shwurzbung dovecot: imap(wizz): Panic: file mail-storage.c: line 834 (mailbox_verify_name): assertion failed: (strncmp(vname, ns->prefix, ns->prefix_len-1) == 0)

> namespace {
>  hidden = yes
>  inbox = yes
>  list = no
>  location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
>  prefix = inbox/
>  type = private
> }

Don't use prefix=inbox/. Either use INBOX/ or something completely different. I think the proper fix here is to just fail to run with this configuration.