Re: [Dovecot] Ambiguous mail location setting

Le 5 juil. 09 à 07:56, Shawn a écrit :

"Using Dovecot v1.0.alpha4 on OpenBSD 3.8 (same problem find using
Dovecot v1.0.alpha3 on OpenBSD 3.7)

[...] dovecot: Nov 04 11:15:28 Error: imap(myuser at mydomain.com <http://dovecot.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dovecot

...

): Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: / var/mail/mydomain.com/myuser (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:) dovecot: Nov 04 11:15:28 Error: imap(myuser at mydomain.com <http://dovecot.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dovecot ): Failed to create storage with data: /var/mail/mydomain.com/myuser [...]

Hello Shawn,

A very quick guess here... Could it be that the dot in "/var/mail/mydomain.com/myuser" is
interpreted as a hierachy separator?

HTH, Axel