Re: dovecot (+sendmail) fails to get email into thunderbird

# %u is replaced with the username that logs in mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

if i change the mail location into: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

mail.log says:

Dec 14 14:24:26 pie dovecot: imap(update.site1): Error: user update.site1: Initialization failed: Namespace '': mbox: mbox root directory can't be a file: /var/spool/mail/mail