Hi,
I would very much appreciate some help since I get one step ahead and two backwardswith my installation.
I am using usernames not (not) in the form of user@domain.tld. Simply a string.
The error I get.
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Jan 12 08:36:31 f42252se dovecot: pop3(avadmin@av.loc): Error: user
avadmin@av.loc: Initialization failed: Initializing mail s?lo
c ?torage from mail_location setting failed: Ambiguous mail location
setting, don't know what to do with it: /home/vmail/avadmin/?
Ja?Maildir/ (try prefixing it with mbox: or
maildir:)
?id
)=?Jan 12 08:36:31 f42252se dovecot: pop3(avadmin@av.loc): Error:
Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information?
Ja?.
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I guess it must have to do something with permissions. Butwhere and which.
My config:
+++ # 2.0.19: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.2.0-35-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 auth_username_format = %Lu hostname = mail.av.loc mail_gid = vmail mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_privileged_group = vmail mail_uid = vmail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0600 user = vmail } } ssl_cert =
Please give me ahint!
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