[Dovecot] Bug: Creating mbox folders

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 23:00 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 08:55 -0500, Kelly Stephens wrote:
> > >> I had trouble this morning creating a folder to contain sub-folders.  I
> > >> am using the mbox format.  Turns out that the .imap directory in the new
> > >> folder (directory) was not being created.  Anytime I tried to view a
> > >> sub-folder (using Thunderbird) dovecot would dump.  Once I manually
> > >> created the .imap directory, it works fine.
> > >>
> > >> dovecot --version ->  2.0.9
> > > I can't reproduce this. Maybe it's been fixed in v2.0.11.
> > >
> > I've upgraded to 2.0.11.  The problem is still present.
> 
> Still crashes with same message? Try what happens if you do it manually:

Oh, I just realized the problem. You're relying on autodetection for
mail location. The problem goes away if you set it explicitly:

mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

(or without INBOX, depending on where it really is)

I'll of course fix the bug anyway.