Userdb userdb_mail=, error Mailbox list driver maildir++: maildir_name not supported by this driver

[Aki Tuomi]

> On 14 May 2019 00:05 Marc Roos via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
> 
>  
> I have this default configuration [0], when use the userdb_mail to point 
> to the mdbox location, the inbox subfolders show differently in a 
> firebird client. So I decided to copy the whole default mail_location 
> into the userdb_mail configuration [2]. But then I get errors [3]. 
> Should I change the namespace configuration here, how? My default 
> namespaces are inbox and 4archives 
> 
> [0]
> [@ ]# doveconf | grep mail_loc
> mail_location = 
> mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:CONTROL=~/mail/control:INDEX=/var/d
> ovecot/%u/index:LAYOUT=maildir++
> 
> [1]
> [@dovecot]# cat special-userdb
> test:x:8267:231:Account with special settings for 
> dovecot:/home/popusers/test:/bin/false:userdb_mail=mdbox:~/mdbox
> 
> [2]
> [@dovecot]# cat special-userdb
> test:x:8267:231:Account with special settings for 
> dovecot:/home/popusers/test:/bin/false:userdb_mail=mdbox:~/mdbox:INBOX=/
> var/spool/mail/%u:CONTROL=~/mail/control:INDEX=/var/dovecot/%u/index:LAY
> OUT=maildir++
> 

Are you intentionally mixing mbox and mdbox? You see that [0] has mbox, and [2] has mdbox.

Aki