Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 5.2.2007, at 20.09, Jim Garrison wrote:
dovecot: Feb 05 09:54:30 Error: POP3(user@mydomain.com): open(/var/mail/vhosts/mydomain.com/david/user, O_CREAT) failed: Not a directory . args = uid=502 gid=502 home=/var/mail/vhosts/%d mail=mbox:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n
So, I'm assuming that "david" is an mbox file, and not a directory? Yes, the mail setting changed a bit. It no longer tries to guess what you meant by /var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n.
Umm.. Did the previous setup really actually work without constant errors in the logs? Because it looks like the index files were created for /var/mail/vhosts/%d/.imap/ directory, and if there were multiple users for a domain they'd conflict with each others. This is one reason why the change was made, to fix setups which appeared to work but didn't really work all that great :)
So the mail= setting needs to be:
mail=<user-specific-directory>:INBOX=/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n
If you really don't want a user-specific directory, see the bottom of http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation
Ah, now I think I see.
userdb static { args = uid=502 gid=502 home=/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n mail=mbox:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n/mail }
Am I correct in stating that the 'home' parameter will cause the indexes to be placed in /var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n/.imap/INBOX (one for each user) and the mail itself is in an mbox file named /var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n/mail?
The index conflict you describe also explains the problem I was having with duplicate emails (mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox)