On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:38:44 +0200, Jason X, Maney jsxmoney@gmail.com wrote:

Dear all,

I hope someone can point me in the right direction. here. I have setup my Dovecot v2.0.13 on Ubuntu 11.10. The logs tells me that the mail location has failed as follows:

========= Jan 16 14:18:16 myservername dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<userA>, method=PLAIN, rip=aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd, lip=www.xxx.yyy.zzz, mpid=1360, TLS Jan 16 14:18:16 myservername dovecot: pop3(userA): Error: user molla: Initialization failed: mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/userA Jan 16 14:18:16 myservername dovecot: pop3(userA): Error: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information.

Yet my config also come out strangely as below:

# path given in the mail_location setting. # mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir # mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u # mail_location = mbox:/var/mail/%d/%1n/%n:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%1n/%n mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir # explicitly, ie. mail_location does nothing unless you have a namespace # mail_location, which is also the default for it.

Hi, Jason.

I will describe my configuration and probably you will find some usefull information. I am using Postfix as MTA and have configured Dovecot to be LDA. I have several domains, so I am using the following folder schema:

/var/mail/vhosts = the root of the mail storage /var/mail/vhosts/domain_1 = first domain /var/mail/vhosts/domain_1/user_1 = first mailbox in this domain .... /var/mail/vhosts/domain_2 = another domain /var/mail/vhosts/domain_2/user_1 = first mailbox in the other domain

This is achieved with the following setting in mail.conf:

mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n

But since I do not want to manually go and create the corresponding folders each time I add new user (I manage accounts through a MySQL table), I also use the following setting in lda.conf:

lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes

Perhaps you only need to add the latter settings in lda.conf and everything should run fine.

Best wishes, IVO GELOV