[Dovecot] New admin, not much success

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 08:28 -0700, Chuck McManis wrote:
> 
> Jun 16 08:22:07 eeebox dovecot: pop3(cmcmanis): Error: user cmcmanis:
> Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from mail_location setting
> failed: mbox: mbox root directory can't be a file: /home/cmcmanis/Mailbox (
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Mbox) 
..

> 
> Now it strikes me that this message indicates that Dovecot is confused about
> how mail is delivered on my system and is looking for a Maildir
> implementation when I"m using single files.

No, it's looking for a directory containing mbox files. See the wiki URL
and "Only /var/mail/ mboxes" section in it.