[Dovecot] Ambiguous mail location setting

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Wed Nov 9 13:45:03 EET 2005


Using Dovecot v1.0.alpha4 on OpenBSD 3.8 (same problem find using Dovecot v1.0.alpha3 on OpenBSD 3.7)

Log output:
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dovecot: Nov 04 11:15:28 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH   1       PLAIN   service=IMAP    secured lip=127.0.0.1   rip=127.0.0.1   resp=AHl2cmlAbjN1dHJpbm4uaXQAeXVyaW6zgXRyaW1v
dovecot: Nov 04 11:15:28 Info: auth(default): sql(myuser at mydomain.com,127.0.0.1): query: SELECT password FROM user_accounts WHERE username='myuser at mydomain.com'
dovecot: Nov 04 11:15:28 Info: auth(default): client out: OK    1       user=myuser at mydomain.com
dovecot: Nov 04 11:15:28 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST        5       32206   1
dovecot: Nov 04 11:15:28 Info: auth(default): sql(myuser at mydomain.com,127.0.0.1): SELECT '/var/mail/'||mailbox AS mail, uid, gid FROM user_accounts WHERE username='myuser at mydomain.com'
dovecot: Nov 04 11:15:28 Info: auth(default): master out: USER  5       myuser at mydomain.com        mail=/var/mail/mydomain.com/myuser uid=10001       gid=10001
dovecot: Nov 04 11:15:28 Error: imap(myuser at mydomain.com): Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: /var/mail/mydomain.com/myuser (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:)
dovecot: Nov 04 11:15:28 Error: imap(myuser at mydomain.com): Failed to create storage with data: /var/mail/mydomain.com/myuser
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I verified that "default_mail_env" on my dovecot configuration file are "maildir:" correctly prefixed:

"default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%d/%n"

and ... permissions of /var/mail/mydomain and /var/mail/mydomain/myuser are 2755 and owner is root:mail.
I'm sure that isn't an authentication problem.
I've tried some days to understand and to find over internet and here in the dovecot mailing list but I've not find a solution yet.
I think it's a dovecot internal bug.
Someone know what I'm talking about?




 
 
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