[Dovecot] Ambiguous mail location setting

[Axel Luttgens]

Le 5 juil. 09 à 07:56, Shawn a écrit :

> "Using Dovecot v1.0.alpha4 on OpenBSD 3.8 (same problem find using  
> Dovecot v1.0.alpha3 on OpenBSD 3.7)
>
> [...]
> dovecot: Nov 04 11:15:28 Error: imap(myuser at mydomain.com <http://dovecot.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dovecot 
> >): 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 <http://dovecot.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dovecot 
> >): Failed to create storage with data: /var/mail/mydomain.com/myuser
> [...]

Hello Shawn,

A very quick guess here...
Could it be that the dot in "/var/mail/mydomain.com/myuser" is  
interpreted as a hierachy separator?

HTH,
Axel