[Dovecot] telnet to dovecot not creating mbox

Gabriel Millerd gmillerd at gmail.com
Fri Jul 13 21:16:01 EEST 2007


On 7/13/07, Andy Fadich <andyf at genextllc.com> wrote:
>
> Whenever I create a new email user, telnet fails until an email is sent to
> that user to create his mbox.  This is the error that it gives. Anyone know
> how to fix this?  I could create the email account script to touch the users
> mbox, but I havn't needed to do this in the past with ipop3d and dovecot on
> a different server.
>

Are the permission bits on /var/spool/mail kosher for the dovecot user
to do this on its own?

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Gabriel Millerd


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