[Dovecot] Dovecot problem after last Debian sid update (solved)

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 02:04 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> In another email I can't find at the moment you suggested that I look at 
> the logs.  From there it didn't take long to figure out that something 
> had changed with update of Dovecot that no longer allowed this 
> configuration line to work:
> 
> mail_location: ~/Maildir
> 
> and both in dovecot.conf and log I was warned to add the prefix "maildir""
> 
> With this everything seems to be fixed.
> 
> I don't know whether this would be considered any kind of bug.  The 
> Debian package allowed me to upgrade Dovecot without warning me that the 
> rules for mail_location had changed.

The rules haven't really changed. If you don't add the maildir: prefix,
Dovecot tries to detect automatically if it's mbox or maildir. With
Maildir the detection is done by checking if ~/Maildir/cur/ directory
exists. It does this with v1.1, v1.0.15 and I'm pretty sure also with
older v1.0 versions. So why it broke with the upgrade, I don't really
know.
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