Timo posted a solution for this as well. You need to change the default_mail_env to match the appropriate example from the provided config.

default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

This is due to changes as of RC8. As per Timo's comments about RC11, the config item is now called "mail_location" instead of "default_mail_env".

Cheers

On Monday 06 November 2006 05:06, Ivo Truxa wrote:

I have the same problem after upgrading to RC10. Did you find a solution? Should I update to RC11 or rather downgrade back to an earlier version?

Thanks, Ivo Truxa

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Hi,

On the weekend I tried to upgrade from RC7 to RC10. Clearly, I have to change some things before I can do this. What does it take to get to RC10?

As is, my mail client got an error trying to list messages in /INBOX (via IMAP) and the mail.err log shows the following messages:

Oct 29 10:27:32 siona dovecot: IMAP(archangel): open(/var/mail/archangel/inbox, O_CREAT) failed: Not a directory Oct 29 10:27:32 siona dovecot: IMAP(archangel): mkdir_parents(/var/mail/archangel/.imap/INBOX) failed: Not a directory Oct 29 10:27:32 siona dovecot: IMAP(archangel): open() failed with subscription file /var/mail/archangel/.subscriptions: Not a directory

My dovecot.conf includes default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/%u

And other then enabling SSL, I've got a pretty vanilla configuration (e.g. nothing in the IMAP section at all, no odd namespaces...)

/var/mail/archangel is an mbox file, why is dovecot trying to open files under there?

I know at least part of the discussion has happened on the list before so I'm sorry for duplicating other questions. My TODO is about ten km long so I hope someone can at least give me a couple good pointers.

Thanks in advance!

-- Dominic Lepiane The IRMACS Centre Simon Fraser University