On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 02:04 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
In another email I can't find at the moment you suggested that I look at the logs. From there it didn't take long to figure out that something had changed with update of Dovecot that no longer allowed this configuration line to work:
mail_location: ~/Maildir
and both in dovecot.conf and log I was warned to add the prefix "maildir""
With this everything seems to be fixed.
I don't know whether this would be considered any kind of bug. The Debian package allowed me to upgrade Dovecot without warning me that the rules for mail_location had changed.
The rules haven't really changed. If you don't add the maildir: prefix, Dovecot tries to detect automatically if it's mbox or maildir. With Maildir the detection is done by checking if ~/Maildir/cur/ directory exists. It does this with v1.1, v1.0.15 and I'm pretty sure also with older v1.0 versions. So why it broke with the upgrade, I don't really know.