Re: [Dovecot] dovecot is confused about mail_location

25 Nov 2010


      On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 18:47 -0500, Eric Raymond wrote:
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Noel Butler noel.butler@ausics.net:
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You have omitted the INBOX keyword, change it to ...
mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
Doesn't fix the problem.  New results:
oot@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@grelber:/home/esr# ssh cathy@minx
cathy@minx's password:
c
Set  mail_debug=yes
We dont need fetchmail stuff though, only dovecot logs
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mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
Looks good