On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 16:34, Christian Balzer wrote:
I'm willing to swear that with the 0.99.10.4 Debian package in my rather extensive tests with mailbox format dovecot created not only any missing parental directories but also the INBOX file, but the later I can't prove/test now as I upgraded all respective boxes.
However 0.99.10.5 will still create (if needed and possible) missing directories for mbox storage, just not an empty INBOX.
Have you set default_mail_env, so that Dovecot actually know where the INBOX is supposed to be in? If Dovecot has to do guessing it doesn't guess you want to use /var/mail/user if it doesn't exist.
But with maildir, it will not even do that, from a test with pop3 and imap login attempts to a freshly created account that had not received any mails yet: