I'm now dealing with issue with some users on mbox getting invalid user settings in /var/adm/messages. /var/log/syslog has:

Jul 10 11:21:42 mail2 dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] lda(ejames): Error: user ejames: Initialization failed: Namespace '': Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/top/academic/Atmos/people/ejames/home Jul 10 11:21:42 mail2 dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.crit] lda(ejames): Fatal: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information.

I checked this users home directory and the mail folder is there and permissions are all correct.

I'm running in a mixed mbox and Maildir environment. I read to support this environment you simply comment out the mail_location lines in 10-mail.conf file which will force dovecot to auto detect what format a user is using. This worked fine in dovecot 1.2.12, but seems to failing here.

root@mail2:/userM/mail-services/dovecot/sbin# ./dovecot -n # 2.2.13: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: SunOS 5.11 i86pc auth_failure_delay = 5 secs auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 auth_worker_max_count = 3000 base_dir = /userM/mail-services/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/ default_client_limit = 30000 default_process_limit = 5000 disable_plaintext_auth = no hostname = mail2.engr.colostate.edu 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 duplicate namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { driver = pam } passdb { driver = passwd } postmaster_address = cjay@engr.colostate.edu service auth { unix_listener /var/lib/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0666 } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } user = root } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } ssl_cert = </userM/mail-services/dovecot/etc/ssl/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </userM/mail-services/dovecot/etc/ssl/privkey.pem userdb { args = blocking=yes driver = passwd } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 50 } protocol lda { mail_plugins = sieve } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 50 }

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