On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 14:38 +0200, Jason X, Maney wrote:

Jan 16 14:18:16 myservername dovecot: pop3(userA): Error: user molla: Initialization failed: mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/userA

As it says.

Yet my config also come out strangely as below:

========= root@guyana:~# dovecot -n # 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.0.0-12-server x86_64 Ubuntu 11.10 passdb { driver = pam } protocols = " imap pop3" ssl_cert =

There is no mail_location above. This is the configuration Dovecot sees.

My mailbox location setting is as follows:

========= cat conf.d/10-mail.conf |grep mail_location

Look at /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf file. Do you see !include conf.d/*.conf in there? Probably not, so those files aren't being read.