Hello,

I've just installed Dovecot from the http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/ repository. But I have a problem with the mdbox Format. When the home folder is empty Dovecot should create the folder structure if the first mail arrived or the user logs in the first time. But I get following error: Sep 16 12:30:41 smtp dovecot: lmtp(31244): Connect from local Sep 16 12:30:41 smtp dovecot: lmtp(31244, info@example.de): Error: file_dotlock_open() failed with file /var/mail/es030107p1/mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.log: No such file or directory Sep 16 12:30:41 smtp dovecot: lmtp(31244, info@example.de): Error: Opening INBOX failed: Mailbox doesn't exist: INBOX Sep 16 12:30:41 smtp dovecot: lmtp(31244, info@example.de): 0ZQgDbkNkkwMegAA00WXAw: msgid=20100916123041.4781A4F4138@smtp.example.de: save failed to INBOX: Mailbox doesn't exist: INBOX Sep 16 12:30:41 smtp dovecot: lmtp(31244, info@example.de): Error: BUG: Saving failed to unknown storage Sep 16 12:30:41 smtp dovecot: lmtp(31244): Disconnect from local: Client quit

Also if I try to create a mailbox by hand I get a similar error. doveadm(info@example.de): Error: file_dotlock_open() failed with file /var/mail/es030107p1/mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.log: No such file or directory doveadm(info@example.de): Error: Can't create mailbox INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2010-09-16 14:07:42]

If I now create the dbox-Mails directory and the dovecot.index.log by hand and make a doveadm -v force-resync -u info@example.de INBOX everthing is alright.

Also I can not create a new IMAP-folder with Thunderbird. It seems Dovecot forgets to create the dbox-Mails directory and the dovecot.index.log file.

Now my config: # 2.0.2 (eb5adb193064): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 x86_64 Debian 5.0.6 auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 10000 first_valid_uid = 10000 last_valid_gid = 10000 last_valid_uid = 10000 login_greeting = Webfixx Dovecot ready. mail_debug = yes mail_gid = vmail mail_location = mdbox:%h/mdbox 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 passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } postmaster_address = liox@elso.mine.nu service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } user = vmail } ssl_cert =