Re: [Dovecot] could someone check my conf files for dovecot and postfix

On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 19:58 -0700, Trish wrote:

*> dovecot -n* # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-31-generic i686 Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS .. mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir

This looks ok.

May 6 20:33:00 craftboard dovecot: IMAP(support.perlygates.com): mail_location: maildir: Unknown setting: mbox

There's no reason this error could come from that above config file. So I bet your problem is that you installed dovecot-postfix package, and Ubuntu is actually using /etc/dovecot/dovecot-postfix.conf (or something like that) and that config file is broken.