[Dovecot] newbie: can not authenticate using dovecot

[Timo Sirainen]

On 18.5.2011, at 7.06, nyoman.bogi at gmail.com wrote:

> I've found the problem after activating Dovecot's log.
> After I use "mail_location = mbox:/var/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u"
> everything works just fine.

That's not a good way to do it. It doesn't break with one user, but you'll start getting into trouble with more users since everyone tries to write to /var/mail/.imap/INBOX/* index files, thinking they own it. See the bottom of http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Mbox