[Dovecot] dovecot is confused about mail_location

[Eric Raymond]

Noel Butler <noel.butler at ausics.net>:
> Set  mail_debug=yes

root at grelber:/etc# dovecot -n
# 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS 
log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S 
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
mail_privileged_group: mail
mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
mail_debug: yes
mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock
auth default:
  passdb:
    driver: pam
  userdb:
    driver: passwd
root at grelber:/etc# tail /var/log/mail.err
Nov 24 17:09:41 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/cathy
Nov 24 17:09:41 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): Fatal: Namespace initialization failed
Nov 24 18:34:40 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/cathy
Nov 24 18:34:40 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): Fatal: Namespace initialization failed
Nov 24 18:34:54 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/cathy
Nov 24 18:34:54 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): Fatal: Namespace initialization failed
Nov 24 18:35:07 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/cathy
Nov 24 18:35:07 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): Fatal: Namespace initialization failed
Nov 24 18:39:19 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/cathy
Nov 24 18:39:19 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): Fatal: Namespace initialization failed
root at grelber:/etc# # Running fetchmail, login fails...
root at grelber:/etc# tail /var/log/mail.err
Nov 24 18:34:40 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/cathy
Nov 24 18:34:40 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): Fatal: Namespace initialization failed
Nov 24 18:34:54 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/cathy
Nov 24 18:34:54 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): Fatal: Namespace initialization failed
Nov 24 18:35:07 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/cathy
Nov 24 18:35:07 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): Fatal: Namespace initialization failed
Nov 24 18:39:19 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/cathy
Nov 24 18:39:19 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): Fatal: Namespace initialization failed
Nov 24 19:46:35 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/cathy
Nov 24 19:46:35 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): Fatal: Namespace initialization failed

Does not seem to yield additional info. Is there somewhere else I should look.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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