I successfully installed dovecot 0.99.10 on a fedora box using postfix 2.0.11 and when I try to connect using my mozilla mail client I get the following error in the maillog...
Jan 7 18:52:16 www1 imap(arnoldc): utime() failed with index file /home/arnoldc/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index: No such file or directory
As you can see I'm using maildirs located in the home directories. Here is a copy of my dovecot.conf and I've removed all the commented out lines to save space...
protocols = imap imap_listen = * ssl_disable = yes login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login login = imap default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir client_workarounds = oe6-fetch-no-newmail outlook-idle mbox_locks = fcntl auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = shadow auth_user = root auth_verbose = yes
Also, I created the maildir manually and placed a copy in my /etc/skel so that all new users receive a copy. Here is the structure and permissions from the home directory...
ll drwx------ 5 arnoldc arnoldc 4096 Jan 7 18:33 Maildir
ll Maildir/ drwx------ 2 arnoldc arnoldc 4096 Jan 7 18:33 cur drwx------ 2 arnoldc arnoldc 4096 Jan 7 18:33 new drwx------ 2 arnoldc arnoldc 4096 Jan 7 18:33 tmp
Any help would be appreciated!
Arnold