[Dovecot] lda and mail_location

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 00:18 -0700, Mark Edwards wrote:
> I have the following set in the main level of my dovecot.conf file:
> 
> mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/virtual/%u
> 
> I decided to enable the lda protocol for local delivery from postfix,  
> so I could use sieve plugins.  The lda protocol seems to ignore  
> settings in the rest of the dovecot.conf file, however, such as the  
> above.  Unless lda has a pre-existing maildir mailbox, it can't  
> create one.  How do I give lda defaults to follow, if the above  
> statement doesn't do it?

Sounds like it's using a wrong config file. Try running explicitly with
deliver -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

Or set mail_debug=yes and check what it writes to logs.

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