Hi,

I would very much appreciate some help since I get one step ahead and two backwardswith my installation.

I am using usernames not (not) in the form of user@domain.tld. Simply a string.

The error I get.

+++ Jan 12 08:36:31 f42252se dovecot: pop3(avadmin@av.loc): Error: user avadmin@av.loc: Initialization failed: Initializing mail s?lo c ?torage from mail_location setting failed: Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: /home/vmail/avadmin/? Ja?Maildir/ (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:)
?id )=?Jan 12 08:36:31 f42252se dovecot: pop3(avadmin@av.loc): Error: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information? Ja?. +++

I guess it must have to do something with permissions. Butwhere and which.

My config:

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2.0.19: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

OS: Linux 3.2.0-35-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS

auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 auth_username_format = %Lu hostname = mail.av.loc mail_gid = vmail mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_privileged_group = vmail 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 ihave passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0600 user = vmail } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2:ALL:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL:!EXP:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem syslog_facility = avdove userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } protocol lda { sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail } +++

Please give me ahint!

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