On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
[Reversing the top-posting]
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Wendell Turner wrote:
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The trailing '/' means mbox format, correct?
No. The trailing '/' means maildir format. (The '/' makes the path look like a directory.)
Forgot to add: specifying the 'mbox:' explicitly should make that a moot point. Dovecot only has to guess (by using "Does the path end in '/'?") if you don't specify mbox/dbox/maildir/etc. (I suspect it might also depend on whether the file/dir already exists.)
However, I solved my own problem, but I don't know why. Enlightenment would be appreciated.
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Q: why did commenting out the mail_location line make pop3 retrieval of the virtual host mailboxes work correctly?
Commenting out the mail_location line made dovecot fall back to the default locations. See: http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation
Best, Ben