[Dovecot] crash on LIST command

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Jun 16 11:47:16 EEST 2003


On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 05:28, Wouter Van Hemel wrote:
> Manually adding the ~/.mail directory with mkdir takes care of the
> problem, but shouldn't this directory be created automatically when it
> doesn't exist? I can't expect every user to log in and first make this
> mail directory before they can use their mail account.

Oh, and this is already fixed too.

> Dovecot also refuses to show any folders at all, such as the INBOX, when
> it can't find it's mail(folders) directory. Is this intentional?

You mean if you have only INBOX in /var/mail/ but eg. no ~/mail? I don't
think it even allows logging in without? And that is intentional.



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